Mom Breaks Down Realizing Her Daughter Was Practicing Lockdown Drill In ‘Cute’ Bathroom Picture

[demmiblue]

Source: GOOD

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A picture may be worth a thousand words but sometimes there’s another story behind a deceptively simple and “cute” image. That was the case for Stacey Wehrman Feeley, who snapped a seemingly adorable picture of her young daughter standing atop a toilet in their home’s bathroom.

“However, The moment she told me what she was doing I broke down,” wrote in a Facebook post that has quickly gone viral. “She was practicing for a lockdown drill at her preschool and what you should do if you are stuck in a bathroom. At that moment all innocense of what I thought my three-year-old possessed was gone.”

In the wake of horrific mass shootings like the one in Orlando last week, Feeley’s 3-year-old daughter was acting out a safety drill she had recently been taught in case there was active shooter in a building where she was trapped. The post has been shared more than 20,000 times in less than one week.

"In the schools they are very good about telling them that this is a drill for if someone that is not supposed to be in the building is in there," she said in an interview with ABC News. "They do not even bring up guns whatsoever, but the older kids understand."

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[baldguy]

1. We need to teach special skills to children so they can survive encounters with gun owners

because gun owners can't be held responsible, or face the consequences for their behavior.

[gratuitous]

11. Yep

It's a cinch we're not going to do anything about why kids need to be taught to stand on the toilet, so we'll instruct them on how best to survive an encounter with a gun-wielding maniac. This will also build in the needed "blame the victim" component so that anyone who dies can be held at least partially responsible for getting shot. As for dealing with the post-traumatic event problems, we can leave that up to the parents and relieve ourselves of any responsibility for any survivor guilt or night terrors or suchlike the three-year-old has to deal with for the rest of her life.

All of that is far preferable to the nightmare of reducing the ready availability of guns and our societal preference for solving problems with violence. 'Cause that's like communism times socialism squared ungood.

[tonyt53]

2. When I was that age, we were getting under our desks at school during bomb drills.

The threat was from the USSR. Now no missiles are really threatened to be launched and now the people doing the mass murders are Americans. This is a sickening situation.

[ck4829]

4. It was a 'war' then, now it's just a bunch of disconnected 'islands of murder'

Unless they're Muslim... then they're part of a war apparently. But if they're Jason Dalton, Adam Lanza, John Houser, Elliot Rodger; just an island of murder, nothing to see here, oh well it happens, and so on.

[Bucky]

3. That's clearly not a kevlar summer dress. What mom sends her child to school w/o kevlar?

How irresponsible! I'll be that child hasn't even been trained in responding to a random shooter with her own semi-automatic. Doesn't this lady know that firearms proficiency is the literacy of the 21st century?

[world wide wally]

5. Why do our phony politicians even pretend there is a difference between who kills your child?

Are they less dead if they are shot by a "freedom loving" American gunman than if they are shot by a Muslim or bombed by the Russians?

[ecstatic]

6. +1000. nt

[frazzled]

7. This article does not suggest

the school's drill makes a distinction between kinds of mass shooting. It says the purpose was to prepare kids "in case there was active shooter in a building" and that it was "a drill for if someone that is not supposed to be in the building is in there." For all we know, such drills have been in place since Newtown. The standing on the toilet is perhaps an addition, since that is what we learned survivors in Orlando did.

As for "politicians"--the ones on our side did not make such a distinction either. You will recall that in Obama's remarks in the press room after Orlando, he (once again) spoke of Aurora, Tucson, Newtown, Charleston, etc. They are about mass shooting, and no one is making this into a specifically terrorism thing with respect to this article.

I would want to have my kids drilled for intruders and shootings as much as I would want them to have regular fire drills. Not everything is a political talking point, and we do harm by politicizing everything.

[world wide wally]

8. No argument about anything you just said.

I was just referring to the votes in the House and Senate that constantly occur to keep protecting NRA profits and then the major freakout if a shooting is done by someone with Muslim ancestry.
A simple "moment of silence" is good enough when they are killed by a domestic nut case, but threats of WWIII and mass incarceration when it is someone with a foreign name.
If it is your child, what difference does it make "WHO" is doing the killing?

[frazzled]

13. I agree

Once this stupid election season is over, I hope that we can put as much if not more of our political energy into ending this scourge of guns and ending the vilification of the entire Muslim community.

What ever happened to metal detectors? I remember in the late 90s when every nightclub and even my daughter's high school had them. I know it might not stop a determined mass shooter from just busting through, but at least it would set up immediate alarms to patrons, students, and/or police.

[Igel]

9. No, the "standing on the toilet" has been there for a while.

You can also see it in any number of movies where somebody is running. The rushed would-be assailants look for feet in the stalls.

[Igel]

10. The mother lacks an adequate theory of mind.

The mother's projecting a loss of "innocense" and full mental faculties back to a 3-year-old. And we wonder why we can't let kids just be kids. It's because parents assume there's no difference between a human brain and mental capabilities at ages 3, 13, 23, and 43.

The kid probably hasn't been told a lot of stuff, and some of what she's likely been told isn't "developmentally appropriate" which, in this case, probably means "comprehensible." At least not the way adults understand it.

She's told "if you're told there's somebody here that shouldn't be here, and you're in the bathroom, this is what you do." And the response at that age is, "Okay." Or, possibly, "Why?"

The answer to "why?" might be, "In order to lessen the death toll and casualty count and provide for the general protection of the building occupants" and be met with a blank gaze. Or "because a big, bad monster is there who'll bite off your fingers and toes and flush you down the toilet" and be met with hysteria.

More likely, she'd be told, "Because think of it as hide-and-seek. If you leave your feet on the ground, it's easier to find you." And that would be met with, "Oh, okay." The danger being that if it's a game, the kid may not take it seriously.

Maybe she'd be told, "because the person who isn't supposed to be here might hurt you and we don't want that, but we can't be everywhere at once." On the other hand, if the kid's too afraid of being hurt during an actual lockdown then the kid's likely to be irrational, by adult standards, and make a sound or run as the ever-present reptilian brain triumphs over the inhibitatory circuits that won't be complete until the kid's 20 years older.

[MrScorpio]

12. If we're going to remain a country, awash in firearms and willfully impotent about gun violence...

This is the reality that's going to stick with us.

Paranoia breeds more of itself.