"I teach my kids how to play dead in the event of school shooting"

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A mum is teaching her kids how to "play dead" in the event of a mass shooting - describing it as essential survival skill for children today.  Eeka McLeod, 43, would regularly talk to her kids about the risks of school shootings.  But it's not until the recent shooting in Georgia, USA, which killed four people, that she began running drills.  Eeka teaches her daughters, Ella, seven, and Diana, nine, how to respond if they ever found themselves in an active shooter situation.  Video shows Ella laid on her back pretending to be dead while Eeka instructs her to "breathe lightly."

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00:00Dead people, don't smile. Stop breathing so heavy.

00:02Don't move. Very light breathing.

00:04If the police come in and say,

00:05do you need help, do you respond?

00:07No.

00:08Don't say anything.

00:09You shouldn't have responded to me just now, right?

00:11Little breaths.

00:12Little.

00:13Less.

00:14Less.

00:15Relax your face.

00:19Good.

00:19Look more relaxed on your face.

00:21No smiles, no nothing.

00:22Relax every muscle in your body.

00:26Light breathing.

00:27Bang, bang, bang.

00:28Police, open up. Is anybody in there?

00:34Good. No smiling.

00:39Good job, babe. Good job.

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