I was on a panel recently discussing the future of work when a fellow panelist shared a chilling statistic. In their research, they had monitored the social media platform Discord and found a server with approximately 5,000 children actively and openly discussing suicide.
These conversations were unfolding in a digital space with virtually no adult supervision — a dark corner of the internet where despair was festering among the generation expected to build our future. That reality is more than a tragic footnote in the story of technology; it is a blaring siren signaling a catastrophic failure of both parenting and education.
As we stand on the precipice of an AI revolution that will reshape society, we are failing to equip our children with the emotional resilience to navigate the world today, let alone the skills and purpose to thrive in the world of tomorrow.
Let’s talk about the urgent need to build emotional and digital resilience in our children as they head back to school, and then close with my Product of the Week: the new Pixel 10 Pro Fold.
Parenting in the Age of Anonymity
