Abigail Gewirtz

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With anxious children and very anxious parents.

I began to sort of look around and think about the state of the world and I was doing more international work as well.

And I looked at the numbers and I just saw skyrocketing increases in anxiety and depression among kids.

In teen suicides and at the same time

The world seemed to be undergoing a really high degree of tumult and

Um you'll recall twenty sixteen um

very divisive time at home and abroad, politically with

huge numbers of migrants, migration at a scale not seen since World War Two.

um horrendous school shootings in the beginning of um lockdown drills in school and then increasing awareness of climate change and

that existential threat and I began to think, My goodness, my kids were out of Dipersburg by then, they were

big all beginning to be in their teens and

I just wondered how it would be to be a parent of a young child then.

And um that's when I decided to write the book in late twenty sixteen.

Um so it wasn't a book that I started thinking about just when the pandemic hit, but boy

It was hard to think that things could unravel more and they have.

So I'm very glad that I could could write this book.

I would argue that parents are their kids first and best teachers.

And

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