The Quiet Emergency: When Adults Look Away and Kids Learn to Disappear

if you want.

Tell me kids need thicker skin.

Tell me parents are overreacting.

Tell me schools are trying their best.

Maybe all of that is true.

But answer this—really answer it:

If it were your child shrinking to survive…

Would you still call it “just adolescence”?

Or would you call it what it is?

A quiet emergency.

And the adults in the room deciding whether continue reading …