Lisa Howe, MSW (Becoming Peaceful)
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Social worker and parenting coach; science-based, empathetic frameworks for limits-with-connection and executive function realities.
Social•Mar 4, 2026
All-Caps Alerts Signal Kids' Serious Distress
My 8th grader has a SyncKids watch. It's a smart-ish device which allows for them to call selected people and vice versa. For texting, they can send canned messages like, "Where are you?" as well as voice memos. It has a very tiny keyboard but it's such a PITA that they very rarely use it. A few days ago, I started getting a flurry of long, all caps messages. That alone told me that something was really going on. You have to be quite distressed to take that kind of time and make that effort.
By Lisa Howe, MSW (Becoming Peaceful)