What Have We Done to Our Children? | And What We Can Still Do About It

Something has shifted in the generation we raised. And most of us know it, even if we have not quite said it out loud.

 

The teenagers and young adults around us are struggling. Not because their lives are terrible. Not because anything objectively catastrophic is happening. But because so many of them simply do not know how to cope. How to sit with disappointment. How to navigate conflict. How to get through something hard without it feeling like the end of the world.

 

In this solo episode Rachel asks the uncomfortable question. Did we do this?

 

With honesty, warmth and a healthy dose of recognising herself in all of it, Rachel talks about the world we built for our children. What we gave them and what we accidentally withheld. The friendship drama that sends girls into a three-day spiral and the moment she realised that being a safe place for her own child was only half of what they needed. And the four things parents can do right now that will make a real difference.

 

This one is for every parent who loves their child deeply and is quietly wondering whether the way they showed that love might have made things harder for them in ways they never intended.