September 1st problem

Hello everyone.

Summer vacation is over and the new school term has begun!

Are you familiar with the September 1st problem, which concerns the start of the new school term?

It's a truly shocking problem: every year, a steady stream of children commit suicide on September 1st, the day the new school year begins in many schools.

https://toyokeizai.net/articles/-/186566?page=2

The world of children can be harsher and more brutal than adults realize.

For children, school is their entire community, and even issues that seem insignificant to adults can be major life problems for them.

Reading this article made me acutely aware once again that we adults must take the subtle SOS signals that children send out seriously and become more sensitive to them.

Not my child...

I shared this September 1st issue to prevent precious lives from being lost due to such preconceptions.

Our children's cafe aims to be a place that not only children but also their parents and guardians can rely on.

I hope that before you are driven to the point where you feel you have no other choice but to end your own life, you will realize that there are many ways to resolve the situation and that you are not alone.

And I hope that each of us adults can become someone that others can rely on.

Thank you for reading to the end.

Please also take a look at the linked article.

https://toyokeizai.net/articles/-/186566?page=2