connecticut shooting

How do you explain the unexplainable to children? Today, parents across the country, including myself, were faced with this  -- fumbling over words while explaining the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown - located only 20 miles away from my own daughter's elementary school.

It is always a sad day when people decide to take other people's lives, especially children. Nine adults and 18 children dead this morning as gunmen entered an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut.