{"id":112418,"date":"2022-05-28T10:21:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T14:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=112418"},"modified":"2022-05-28T10:21:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T14:21:43","slug":"ask-the-experts-at-kidspeace-blog-helping-children-process-the-texas-school-shooting-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=112418","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ask the Experts at KidsPeace&#8221; blog: Helping children process the Texas school shooting tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tragic shootings at an elementary school in Texas are dominating news coverage this week, and once again parents and family members are faced with the challenge of helping children in their care process events that even we adults view as unfathomable.<\/p>\n<p>KidsPeace therapist Jodi Whitcomb shares some advice and encouragement for parents in talking to their kids about the incident, in the latest post on the \u201cAsk the Experts at KidsPeace\u201d blog at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kidspeace.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.kidspeace.org<\/a>. \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kidspeace.org\/processing-the-texas-school-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You can read Jodi\u2019s post here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kidspeace.org\/processing-the-texas-school-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-112419 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Sad-teen-1024x536.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Sad-teen-1024x536.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Sad-teen-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Sad-teen-768x402.png 768w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Sad-teen.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information Provided By:<br \/>\nRobert Martin<br \/>\nDirector of Communications<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tragic shootings at an elementary school in Texas are dominating news coverage this week, and once again parents and family members are faced with the challenge of helping children &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=112418\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Ask the Experts at KidsPeace&#8221; blog: Helping children process the Texas school shooting tragedy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/texas-shooting.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/112420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}