I Told My Toddler About a Mass Shooting. Here’s Why.
4 min readMay 25, 2022
Author’s note: I originally wrote this in June 2016 following the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida that left 49 dead. This piece originally appeared on Babble.com, which is no longer in publication. I’m reposting it here because sadly, six years later, it’s still relevant.