A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the aftermath of the Columbine tragedy
A Biography Memoir, Parenting, Nonfiction book. Even after more than ten years as a suicide prevention activist, I still...
On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Over the course of minutes, they would kill twelve students and a teacher and wound twenty-four others before taking their own lives.For the last sixteen years, Sue Klebold, Dylan’s mother, has lived with the indescribable grief and shame of that day. How could her child, the promising young man she had loved and raised, be responsible for such horror? And how, as his mother, had she not known something was wrong? Were there subtle signs she had missed? What, if anything, could she have done differently?These are questions that Klebold has grappled with every day since the Columbine tragedy. In A Mother’s Reckoning, she chronicles with unflinching honesty her journey as a mother trying to come to terms with the incomprehensible. In the hope that the insights and understanding she has gained may help other families recognize when a child is in distress, she tells her story in full, drawing upon her personal journals,...
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Even after more than ten years as a suicide prevention activist, I still find those numbersand the general publics ignorance about themstaggering. I taught Dylan, as I had taught his brother before him, to protect himself from lightning strikes, snakebites, and hypothermia. I taught him to floss, to wear sunscreen, and the importance of checking his blind spot twice. As he became a teenager, I talked as openly as I could about the dangers of drinking and drug use, and I educated him about safe and ethical sexual behavior. It never crossed my mind that... Asking 'why' only makes us feel hopeless. Asking 'how' points the way forward, and shows us what we must do Sue Klebold, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy upset to be inconveniencing Toms family so greatly, and afraid we were Sue Klebold, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
Sue Klebold's narrative is extremely difficult to relate to and empathize with. This book reads like a taut justification defending how good her family is, while very subtly hinting at how "others" live: "I hadn't even been one of those cool parents who smokes pot with their kids or introduces them to their groovy boyfriends." (119).... I have to admit I felt a little hesitant to order this at first, until I saw "All author profits from the book will be donated to research and to charitable organizations focusing on mental health issues." Now that I have finished reading it, I am very glad to have purchased and read it. The story was not what I was expecting, and the... This is a very painful book to read. When we hear about the actions of murderers we always think to ourselves: "How could they've done that? What a monster! Poor victims and their loved ones!" But we never think about the killer's loved ones. They are also a victim. They had nothing to do with murders but people judge them and make...
