Title： Running Towards a New Chapter Author： Kao My daughter is in her second year of middle school. She doesn’t go to school. She spends...

走るほどに、自分も娘も愛おしい 執筆者：かお 不登校の中２の娘。 朝から動画を見てばかり、自己肯定感が低い発言が多く、私のイライラは止まらない。朝の出社前に娘に怒鳴り、夜の帰宅後に散らかった部屋にため息をつく。登校できた日はなぜか安心した。...

“Ah… I want to die.” Those words slip out the moment I open my mouth. And when I close it, tears come instead. I want to die. I can’t do this anymore. I wish I could just disappear. The words that rise in my head—words I can’t erase no matter how hard I try—I accept them, then deny them. I hold them close, then push them away. While I’m doing that, the clock hands keep moving. It’s almost 8:15. Time for school. This is a short essay I happened to find among a pile of crumpled w