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 "title": "“Calm down corner” went from unknown to a back-to-school staple",
 "description": "US Google searches for \"calm down corner\" rose from almost nothing in 2016 to a steady yearly pattern, with a back-to-school spike every August. Chart, table and CSV.",
 "url": "https://raisingstoics.com/research/data/calm-down-corner-searches",
 "question": null,
 "measure": "Search interest, index 0–100",
 "unit": "Google Trends index (0–100)",
 "source": {
  "short": "Google Trends",
  "name": "Google Trends, search interest in \"calm down corner\", United States, monthly (retrieved September 25, 2026)",
  "url": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2016-01-01%202026-09-20&geo=US&q=calm%20down%20corner",
  "license": "Data source: Google Trends (https://www.google.com/trends)",
  "licenseUrl": "https://support.google.com/trends/answer/4365538"
 },
 "license": "Data source: Google Trends (https://www.google.com/trends)",
 "method": "Google Trends values are relative: 100 is the month with the most searches for this phrase in the US in the chosen period, and other months are scaled to it. Values come from a sample, so a fresh download can differ by a point or two. Monthly data, January 2016 to September 2026; September 2026 is partial. Retrieved September 25, 2026.",
 "takeaways": [
  "In 2016 US search interest in \"calm down corner\" was at zero on Google's scale; by 2025 the yearly average was 42, and January–September 2026 averaged 46.",
  "Every year peaks in August — back-to-school season. The highest month in the whole period was August 2025. Averaged over 2021–2026, August interest is about twice the typical month.",
  "For comparison, interest in \"tantrum\" itself stayed roughly flat since 2016 (a separate Google Trends query, on its own scale): the problem isn't growing — the searches for tools are."
 ],
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 "image": "https://raisingstoics.com/research/og/calm-down-corner-searches.png",
 "credit": "Raising Stoics (raisingstoics.com)"
}