Canaries Among Us: A Mothers Quest to Honor Her Childs Individuality in a Culture Determined to Negate It Taylor Kayla

Hannah is a unique, highly sensitive child. What she finds is the opposite: perceiving Hannah's difference as weakness, her classmates bully her--and when Kayla addresses the issue with the school administrators, they minimize and dismiss her concerns. When her mother enrolls her in a well-regarded private school, she thinks it will be equipped to serve her daughter's needs.

Frustrated by the school's failure to protect her child, Kayla researches the topics those in charge are most unwilling to discuss--like bullying, learning differences, and anxiety. The torrent of rejections leads Kayla to wonder--Why is my kid being treated as if she's the one doing something wrong? Her newfound understandings enable her to truly "see" her daughter and combat the judgment and betrayal engulfing their world.

In this powerful chronicle, Taylor reveals with stark vulnerability the joy and heartache