> Today at the daycare center where I am a teacher, a five year-old boy told me he was going to commit suicide. By stabbing himself in the heart with a knife. Tonight. No one would miss him, he told me.
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> At home I knelt to pray for him. I did so witout words, because none would come.

Maybe he wasn't just telling you something. Maybe he was asking for help. What *other* action did you take? If that had happened to me when I was teaching, I would have had a little talk with the principal and guidance person in the next two minutes.
Howard