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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Holy S*** Shooting at Portsmouth Elementary School
My MIL teaches in Portsmouth at an elementary school. We haven't heard anything further if it's her school or not. I'll keep you updated if I hear anything further.
Re: Holy S*** Shooting at Portsmouth Elementary School
Here's the story on CNN. Looks like a domestic situation.
http://www.wlwt.com/news/15242674/detail.html
This is so sad...can you even imagine the terror that so many parents felt when they found out their children could be in danger? I can't...
Anytime I hear about violence at a school I get to thinking how "school shooting" was even a term while we were growing up. It's so sad.
OMG!
How very scary, made my stomach turn.
Yes, I can. Last year, right after the VA Tech shootings, like 2 days after...I start getting phone calls one morning that Gahanna High School is on lockdown becuase of a teenager with a gun or a knife, they were not sure what, the SWAT team had been called etc.
My son was a sophmore at the time, and yes, I freaked out. Fortunately I was able to text him on his cell and find out what was going on but in the maybe 5 minutes it took him to respond, my panic was accelerating with every second that clicked off on the clock that he wasn't answering. I was grabbing my car keys to head to the school when he finally texted me.
It's the most frightening thing you can imagine, when you know your child could be in harm's way. As a parent, the hours between 7 :30am and 3:00pm during the school year are when I relax most, as I know where he is, what he's doing, and that he's safe. But then when these type of things happen, you realize it's a false sense of security.
All of you new moms on the board, have NO idea what you are in for! If you think you worry about your baby now...just wait. That anxiety NEVER goes away, and it only deepens as they get older, and more mobile, and start venturing out into the world!!! As you gradually lose control of them, the anxiety increases.
Trust me, my son will graduate next year, and he's planning to move across country to go to school in LA. , and I get more and more anxious about it all the time!
Wow...you just don't expect it to hit that close to home, especially when "home" is so small...