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

kid to fight back.

Another said, This is why kids are soft now.

Soft.

Like softness is the enemy.

As if the goal of childhood is to become harder instead of kinder.

I turned the phone face down.

In the dark, my wife said, “Are we doing the right thing?”

I stared at the ceiling.

“I don’t know,” I admitted. “But I know what the wrong thing looks like.”

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