As a parent with a platform I just want to say, we should always know where our children are. There is a lot of violence happening with young people in our communities. My daughter is 13, & until she is 18 & out of our care we aim to always know where she is. We all should. It is not the governments job to watch our children. We have to own that far too many parents let their children go to events that have little or no adult supervision & expect children to act as responsible adults. That isn’t realistic or safe for the children or our community. We also have to ask why are we letting elementary age children listen to certain rap music that perpetuates violence. We shouldn’t see children who can quote rap lyrics like their abc’s. That isn’t on the government, that’s on a culture of parenting that is overexposing kids. This isn’t to pretend we get it right as parents every day, or that something couldn’t happen to even my child. It’s to say, the ways we help prevent some of the violence we see, is parents need to take more accountability in knowing where their kids are at all times & with who. I thank God social media wasn’t rampant when I was 11 or 15. The images we constantly put before young people builds a pressure most of us never experienced. It creates access we didn’t have, to constantly communicate with, harass or embarrass someone. These kids need guidance. We also have to consider the conduct we do as adults in front of young people. We need to seriously consider what examples we set before the kids. What we post on social media that they see. The conversations we have in front of them. We need to let kids be kids. There is an African proverb that says “Kasserian Ingera”, an African warrior tribal greeting which means "And how are the children?" The response is typically "Sapati Ingera" which means, "All the children are well" we should ask ourselves, are the children well? I love y’all.