HOW TO TEACH YOUR CHILD SURVIVAL SKILLS THIS SUMMER
KEEP SCHOOLS SAFE SAFETY AND SURVIVAL SKILLS YOU CAN TEACH YOUR CHILD THIS SUMMER Howdy again. Part VI of my continuing series for parents on becoming your kid’s Safety Coach and teaching your...
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KEEP SCHOOLS SAFE PARENTS – KEEP YOUR CHILD SAFE FROM ABDUCTION THIS SUMMER Howdy again, parents, teachers, administrators, teens, and children, and anyone else in the community determined to do...
View ArticleTHE ESSENTIAL KID ESCAPE TRAINING PROGRAM FOR PARENTS THIS SUMMER
IF YOU have been following KSS and have read any of my posts, you already know I have been focusing a series of posts on parents taking the role of Safety Coach for their children. The goal is to make...
View ArticleTEACHERS, ADMINISTRATORS, PARENTS & STUDENTS: DO YOU FEEL SAFE IN &AROUND...
You might know that I have been writing a series for kids and their parents on how to ensure that high school and grade school kids stay safe this summer from sexual predators and bullies. Useful...
View ArticleSECURITY AND CAMPUS POLICE – ARE YOU PART OF THE PROBLEM?
I’ve been not only writing about but studying violence in our schools. Attacks on teachers, security, and student-on-student violence. One thing I’ve noticed is a marked lack of appropriate training...
View ArticleCONSIDERING AURORA, COLORADO
July 21, 2012 Considering Aurora, Colorado IS IT TIME TO ARM OURSELVES AGAINST ARMED PSYCHOTICS? Thought I would contribute a thought or two about the ultra-insane-tragedy- massacre that literally...
View ArticleCONSIDERING AURORA. PART TWO
AAVActiveShooter7/12 ACTION AGAINST VIOLENCE CONSIDERING AURORA – BE PREPARED FOR THE BATMAN COPYCAT! Following up on yesterday’s post (Considering Aurora – Is it Time To Arm Ourselves Against the...
View ArticleTHE COLOR CODED STATES OF MIND AND STOPPING THE ACTIVE SHOOTER
Okay. We’ve chatted about our mind, or brain, our most formidable “weapon,” or maybe better put, our primary Survival Tool that can help us escape and evade, maybe even prevail against the feared...
View ArticleIS IT TIME TO RECONSIDER OUR SCHOOLS’ COUNTER-SHOOTER PROTOCOLS?
I was excoriated not too long ago by one of our readers who thought I was excessively concerned with self-defense and survival issues. “Write something that can actually help me teach, you obsessive...
View ArticleHow To Control Out-Of-Control Children
It doesn’t happen often – thank goodness – but every once in a while a child or smaller student loses his or her temper. Goes out of control to the point that, if she or he is not slowed down or...
View ArticleNO WORDS!
Me. Glib me, I sit here with no ability to devine a simple title for this post. I am drained of whatever creative skills I might have ever possessed. Taken away by some 20-year-old social misfit who...
View ArticleSURVIVING THE ACTIVE SHOOTER IN SCHOOL OR WORKPLACE!
My last post (“No Words”), I admit, was about as instructive as a community college course on Decorum taught by Lady Gaga. But, now that I have collected my senses, here we go with the first of...
View ArticleARMED GUARDS IN OUR SCHOOLS?
Christmas night we always have friends over for a little party. Plenty of wine, beer, booze. And then there’s lazagna, sausage and roasted vegetables swimming in tangy sauce. Lots of talk. Gossip....
View ArticleSchool Strategies for Managing Students Who Represent a Threat to Others
In light of some disturbing recent acts of violence in and around our schools, malls, movie theaters, and other entertainment venues, I thought maybe it was time we revisited the issues surrounding...
View ArticleSCHOOL THREAT ASSESSMENT RESPONSE PROTOCOLS
Maybe I am overreacting, but since Sandy Hook and Aurora and the hundreds of random shooting all over Chicago, I thought mayhap we might chat about providing a mechanism of sorts to assure that threats...
View ArticleWHAT WOULD YOU DO? HOSTAGE SITUATION IN YOUR SCHOOL
Now is the best time to think about it. Doesn’t matter much who you are or what you do: school administrator, Dean of Students, Elementary School teacher, school resource officer, parent, or a wary...
View ArticleKEEP YOUR SCHOOL SAFE AGAINST THE DEADLY COPY CAT KILLER
I suggest to schools and institutions of all types to remain on the alert for future active shooter events such as the catastrophic and devastating massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary. I am the bearer...
View ArticleIS YOUR SCHOOL PREPARED FOR THE NEXT CRITICAL INCIDENT?
A lot of media attention, and rightly so, has been focused on the psycho with lethal weapons massacring children teens, and adults in our schools, movie theaters, shopping malls, you name it. If...
View ArticleBARGAINING WITH THE DEVIL
WE’VE CHATTED A LOT ABOUT THE ACTIVE SHOOTER in our schools and workplaces in recent months. Rightly so, I suppose. You probably agree that there aren’t too many issues more important – sacred even –...
View ArticleSANDY HOOK REVISITED
Once again, the Sandy Hook Massacre is all over the news. Understandable, since this is the one-year anniversary of the grisly Active Shooter event that shocked the nation. Shocked the crap out of...
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