It took years, not weeks, before mornings looked anything like easy. For a long stretch, every school day started the same way. The same fight, the same driveway, the same forty five minutes (minimum) of trying everything I could think of to get her out the door. I remember genuinely wondering if this was just who she was going to be. A kid who couldn’t do mornings. A kid who couldn’t do school. She wasn’t. She just needed something different to what I kept offering her. The twelve-minute Tuesday in this carousel is real, it’s just not from year one. It came after a long time of getting it wrong, then slowly getting it right. My daughter missed over 100 days of school in a single year. She’s now at her first choice university. If you’re in the driveway version of this right now, I promise it’s not the whole story yet. It just might take longer to get there than anyone tells you it will. With love, Jules ❤️ #schoolrefusal #schoolanxiety #teenanxiety #teenmentalhealth #chil...