Inside a parents’ group chat about raising kids in violent times

The Guardian's parenting WhatsApp group discusses the recent spate of school shootings and political violence - and how they explain it to their kids

I have been emotionally at my wit's end with the violence."

Gabriela Rangel is a glass dispatch coordinator in California City, California, and mother to a five-year-old. Like many parents across the nation, she was horrified to learn about the 27 August shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Two children were killed and 17 other people were injured.