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

We don’t tell soldiers with trauma to “just get over it.”

But we tell kids—children with developing brains and fragile identities—that humiliation is a rite of passage.

And we call it normal.

No.

It’s familiar.

It’s common.

But it should not be normal.

Another thing people don’t want to admit:

When adults ignore bullying, they’re not being neutral.

They’re continue reading …