"Always look for the helpers," she'd tell me.

In 1986, Fred Rogers wrote this in a syndicated newspaper column:

I was spared from any great disasters when I was little, but there was plenty of news of them in newspapers and on the radio, 
and there were graphic images of them in newsreels.

For me, as for all children, the world could have come to seem a scary place to live. 

But I felt secure with my parents, and they let me know that we were safely together whenever I showed concern about accounts of alarming events in the world.

There was something else my mother did that I've always remembered: 

"Always look for the helpers," she'd tell me. 
"There's always someone who is trying to help." 

I did, and I came to see that the world is full of doctors and nurses, 
police and firemen, volunteers, neighbors and friends 
who are ready to jump in to help when things go wrong.

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