Excuse me Officer, can you help?

Last year Jace would get terrified every time he

heard a police car go by. No matter how many times his mom and everyone else reassured him

that it was okay nothing seemed to work. The next time he would hear a siren, even from a far distance, he would panic and cry.

We wondered if it was because everything that he had seen with officers involved ,was traumatic. He listens and picks up on our emotions when we talk like about Kylee's car wreck, the bus accident and even our reactions when an officer pulls us over. We have had to be very careful what we say

I suggested to Amber that it might help if we took him down to the police station and asked the officers to talk to him so he would see that they were nice.

We took him down to the West Bountiful Police Department. Two of the officers showed him around the station and let him see inside the police car. They even turned the lights on for him!!!! Jace liked that!

The officers told Jace that they were daddies and had little kids just like him. The officers gave Jace pencils and stickers and showed Jace their little pretend police cars on their desk.

Jace seemed very comfortable with them.

From that day on Jace was no longer afraid when he heard sirens go by. He would say that they were his friends!!

Thanks West Bountiful Police Officers!!!!