Commentary: Disruptive behavior is on the rise in our children. They need empathy and healing

This past fall, my 14-year-old son, Will, came home from school and told me that some of his fellow students had participated in a TikTok challenge that encouraged them to vandalize school bathrooms. Students destroyed soap dispensers and spilled drinks all over stalls. Like many teenagers, Will initially found it funny. “But,” he said, “the more I thought about it, I felt really bad for the custodian who would have to clean it up.”

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