Saturday, July 25, 2015

When we get used to violence

My children saw someone die last week


I arrived home from work and they were telling me all about calling the ambulance and the lady crying 'his heart stopped' and how the man put a cloth over the persons face
the ambulance came
the kids went into great detail and i realized they were describing someone had passed away ( i did confirm this )
I don't know how i feel about this - i cant really process it - but maybe no parent knows the answer to how to deal with your children seeing someone die 
maybe i should Google it !
but such is life here  that it really just seemed like a normal day 
who else has a 3 yo and 5 yo that think nothing of witnessing such events 


although i doubt they realize the "death part" its just that they are so used to seeing violence, and calling the ambulance and hearing the wailing that they think its a normal part of a week

Then this evening a lady called out she was bleeding from her head
i took cloths down to help stop the bleeding, the kids were behind me watching we called the ambulance
The lady had been hit with a can of tinned meat and had quite a nasty laceration on the side of her head
The kids watched as the police and ambulance came and took her off to hospital
what did they make of this ???
I dont know they have seen such events since they could lift their heads up and look around

2 comments:

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