After the flood

What is happening to our children—and what if the real problem isn’t them, but us?
Susanna Tamaro delivers a powerful call to rethink how we educate, protect and prepare the next generation.

In After the Flood, internationally bestselling author Susanna Tamaro turns her attention to one of the most urgent questions of our time: the growing crisis among children and adolescents. Anxiety, loneliness, violence, digital dependency and a profound loss of meaning are increasingly shaping young lives. But rather than blaming a generation in distress, Tamaro asks adults to confront a more uncomfortable possibility: what kind of world have we created for them?
We have given children unprecedented freedom, technology and material comfort, she argues, while gradually withdrawing many of the things they need most: boundaries, guidance, meaningful relationships and adults willing to take responsibility for educating them. In a culture dominated by consumption, competition, screens and constant stimulation, childhood itself risks becoming increasingly fragile.
Drawing on a lifetime of observation and reflection, Tamaro makes an impassioned case for recovering the forgotten wisdom of education—not as control or discipline for its own sake, but as the patient work of helping a young person discover who they are and how to live in the world.
Provocative yet ultimately hopeful, After the Flood is both a diagnosis of a generation in crisis and a call to adults to reclaim their responsibility.

If we want to save our children, Tamaro argues, we must first change the world we are asking them to grow up in.