How the power of 3 words changed this Sandy Hook mother's life

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Remembering Sandy Hook: Living with grief, hope and a mission in honor of a son

It started with three words Jesse wrote on her kitchen chalkboard before he left for school on Dec. 14. She almost never saw them. At first, Lewis thought she might not return to the Newtown, Connecticut farmhouse where she raised Jesse and his older brother, J.T., now 18. It was so full of memories of Jesse and his loud boy energy. Even now, she unearths his beloved little green Army men in the corners of closets and under rocks in her garden.

“I knew immediately, if Adam Lanza had felt nurturing, healing love, this would not have happened,” Lewis says. She told the professor they had to get this message into schools — but how? “Well,” he said, “it’s called social and emotional learning.” It can sound a bit soft-and-cuddly, especially when schools are under pressure to raise test scores. But here's the thing: SEL actually does raise test scores, according to research, by an average of 11 percentage points. Even 18 years later, studies have shown that students exposed to SEL training in school have better academics, score higher on skills like empathy and teamwork, have fewer emotional problems and lower rates of drug use.

 

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😪😓😔💔 Sandyhook

Allowing a gun to fall into the wrong hands is tantamount to pulling the trigger too. It is the government, gun manufacturers, gun dealers of all kinds and individual gun owners responsibility to prevent it from happening; there are no ifs, ands, or buts about it-- your at fault.

Nurturing. Healing. Love. 🤍💛💝

Forever sad 😔

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