Why are suicide rates increasing among youth? - Kids mental health crisis.

Mental health is not just an important topic for adults but more importantly a conversation for our youth that needs to be talked about more. Kids go through a series of emotions and development throughout their teenage years as they try to find themselves. Often being confused, scared and damaged from emotions stemming from certain living conditions. In a technology driven world we live in the increased engagement of cyber bullying, depression, people living in a fantasy world online we have gotten so far from reality and what’s actually real it has now shifted to our youth who are struggling to find validation and loving themselves. It’s being reported that roughly 400 to 450 children going to the emergence rooms per month are being presented with suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, and aggressive behavior. The art of love is missing from the classroom to the home. Our kids hearts are dying at an early age but they still live each everyday with pain, what if we showed more love to our kids at an early age? Plant the seeds of love early to build young leaders and change-makers for the future of our society.

It's simple every kid just wants to be loved. Put yourself in the shoes of a first grader flashback to those days in school when you might have done something good, passed your test, helped your teacher or classmates out and you received a compliment. “Great job, congratulations, keep up the good work, proud of you”. Hearing those words from your teacher, parent, family member or friends, gives you a warm fuzzy feeling inside and boost your confidence giving you the feeling you can do anything you set your mind to. Imagine a young child going through some hardships mentally and at home, being at school can be their only escape by hearing those words It gives a sense of hope and feeling of being loved. The difference between someone who believes in themselves and the person that doesn’t isn’t the talent difference but more of the love being shown to them. Giving our kids a sense of hope improves the mental processing of a child, appealing to their social emotional trigger that is often now being impacted negatively.?

Kids are impressionable! What you have been taught at 8 years old is a installed routine or way of thinking that sticks with you for the rest of your life. Think of it when you first learned to brush your teeth, your parents showed you a way that you have been using your whole life. This is the same as just showing love to kids they become accustom to that feeling and begins to reciprocate the same feelings to those around them. To help save our kids mental we must install love! A simple thank you, or acknowledgment of their work goes a long way. We used the saying sticks and stones break bones but words may not hurt me as a mental note, words have become a weapon in human communication that is now affecting our kids mental. Show love, you never know what our kids are going through, your simple words can prevent suicide thoughts, as we work to provide our future leaders with a enhanced quality of living it all starts and begins with love.

We can’t expect a future of excellence if we ignore the youth cry for love.

Don’t look for change be the change. – Sebastian Sanders