It is this anger that can give way to violence.Ĭaring adults can make all the difference by helping children talk about and understand the experience. When their feelings are pushed underground in this manner, these children may begin to feel bad in ways they don’t understand, and become angry as a result of feeling bad. Regardless of the type of incident, child witnesses often react by trying to forget or ignore the experience. The event might be a car accident, domestic or school violence, suicide, or a natural disaster such as a tornado, flood, or fire. Now Sherman is feeling much better.Ĭhildren who have witnessed violence or other traumatic incidents are at surprisingly greater risk for committing violence in the future than are children who have actually been involved in such events. Maple, who helped him talk about the terrible thing that he had tried to forget. And he started to feel angry and do mean things, which got him in trouble. At first he tried to forget about it, but soon something inside him started to bother him. Sherman Smith saw the most terrible thing happen. A gently told and tenderly illustrated story for children who have witnessed any kind of violent or traumatic episode, including physical abuse, school or gang violence, accidents, homicide, suicide, and natural disasters such as floods or fire.
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