children's mental health

The school supply list is easy to see. Pencils, folders, lunchbox, backpack, sneakers, calculator, hand sanitizer. You can lay it all out on the kitchen table and check each item off. Emotional supplies are harder to spot. A child can have every notebook labeled and still walk into school carrying worry, sleep debt, friendship stress, fear of failure, or the heavy feeling that no one will understand. Back-to-school season brings new routines, new teachers, new social pressure