Cook a meal together. Read the Day 1 notebook entry. Hug (if consensual). Then say: “This isn’t the end. This is Day 1 of the next 30. But now we know we can survive it.”
She told me about a boy who called her “quiet” like it was a disease. About a teacher who said “look at me when I’m talking” in front of the whole class. About the morning she threw up from anxiety and her dad said “you’re just nervous.” 30 days with my schoolrefusing sister
Invite one safe friend over for 20 minutes. No school talk allowed. Play a board game. You act as social buffer—interrupt if conversation turns to grades or absence. Cook a meal together