He had a great day.
Every afternoon, the teachers said it. And every afternoon, we braced at our own front door — because we knew what a great day cost our son, and we knew what was coming.
For years we lived in the aftermath. We got brilliant at catching the storms once they hit. What we never had was a way to see one coming — to know, at ten in the morning, that his body had been climbing toward the edge for hours while everyone around him saw a kid who was doing just fine.
It turns out the storm was never invisible. It was just speaking a language no one had been equipped to hear.
Children's bodies broadcast stress long before behavior does — a rising heart rate, a nervous system running hot. Researchers have shown those signals can be read minutes, sometimes longer, before a meltdown breaks. We're building the tool we always needed: a way to finally listen.