Trauma
As a school nurse, I am called to many classrooms for different reasons. This is especially true of the 4-year-olds in the building. Many of these younger students have difficulty expressing how they are feeling. I was called into a classroom the other day to check out a boy who woke up from his nap and would not stop crying. I brought my thermometer and looked him over. He did not appear sick. I looked up his information so that I could call home. His grandmother was the primary contact person. I spoke with his grandmother and relayed the concern on behalf of the teacher. The grandmother told me that sometimes he wakes up crying because he misses his mom. What I learned through this conversation was that Mom and Dad had a drug overdose and died while he was in the room. This boy is largely nonverbal so he cannot tell anyone what the root of his tears are. I felt so sad for this boy. I told...