12/10/2025
My opinion for school this is a MUST! Just like sick days these should be built in. It’s important for kids who need help regulating emotions especially in more vulnerable years. The push for attendance in schools is taking away from children’s health both physical and mental.
As a mom of 6, I’ve never hesitated to let my kids stay home if they had something the day before that happened at school and they needed a day to process. This means truancy letters and afterschool days to make it up, but forcing my kids into an emotional elevated situation over school funding is not okay for me.
On a work level- it would depend on employer. A minimum of off days should be allowed for sickness and PTO. PTO should not have to be scheduled so that if someone needs a mental health day they can choose between sick day or PTO. But also know some companies don’t offer a lot of time off. So in that case I do think it would be beneficial to add it in.
A lot of men tend to think they’re not allowed to feel because they’ve always been told, stop crying, suck it up, you’re a man. Men don’t cry. There’s no wonder that men account for nearly 80% of suicides (according to NIMH).
As a society we need to normalize mental health. If you go to the doctor with a broken leg everyone can see the injury. But mentally not so much. And when we are told we are weak for communicating our emotions it makes it a taboo conversation.
Just as if we see something, we should say something at school or work regarding something suspicious; we should be saying something when we see someone who seems to be having a hard day— rather that be at school or work.
What’s your take? Yay or Nay? Why or why not?
