A flier in a Kansas City-area middle school has links to a “mental health” article with highly profane language and an obvious adult audience in mind.

The flier, sent to The Heartlander by a concerned citizen and reportedly on the wall at Trail Ridge Middle School in Kansas’ Gardner Edgerton Unified School District 231, links to an article headlined “The Let Them Theory Is the Secret to Giving Less F*cks in 2025.”

The article, which also contains the word “shi**y,” is from an interview with author and podcaster Mel Robbins, in which she describes her “Let Them Theory” as a mechanism for coping with things other people do that upset you.

Besides the profanity, the article is obviously aimed at an adult audience, with references such as:

• Your dad judges your job. The traffic? Freaking horrible. These are shi**y situations that make you frustrated, angry, or stressed out.
• Your roommate is going to be upset that you want to move in with your partner.
• Your parents are going to be upset that you want to move across the country or change your major.
• Your boss is going to be upset if you say you can’t work this weekend.
• Your mother will get over it. Your friend will get over it. Your boss will get over it.

When asked by the interviewer, “But what if you’re a people pleaser who hates disappointing others?” Robbins responds, “This is something you were [probably] trained to do during your childhood. Well, now it’s time to f***ing grow up and learn to let people be disappointed.”

“Mel Robbins’ material is created for adults, not children,” the concerned citizen, who asked to remain anonymous, told The Heartlander. “It’s not just the language, it’s the content. Many other articles were also accessible [through the flier]; some were mental health related, but all were adults themed.”

But perhaps even more concerning, the citizen said, is the theme of the Robbins article – which is to consciously decide not to care about things.

It’s not a healthy message for middle-schoolers lacking nuance, the citizen said.

“One of the biggest battles we face in the world of education is apathy. When a student doesn’t care, there is little to be done to motivate, encourage, or help in the learning process – so ‘not giving a f***’ is the last thing I would ever want to promote.

“When things get tough in life, feeling strong emotions is a sign of caring. Students need guidance in understanding and processing their emotions, not simply dismissing them.”

The Robbins article, reached through the middle school flier’s QR code, is on a mental health website called Wondermind, run by former stage actress Mandy Teefey and her more famous daughter, singer/actress Selena Gomez.

More recently, Gomez – whose website bills itself as offering “easy, doable ways to put your mental fitness first every day – is perhaps most famous for a much-mocked, since-deleted Instagram video in late January in which she sobbed uncontrollably over President Trump’s deportations of dangerous illegal criminal aliens.

“All my people are getting attacked, the children,” said Gomez, whose family includes Hispanic lineage. “I don’t understand. I’m so sorry. I wish I could do something but I can’t.”

Gomez’s meltdown was savaged by X users, reports the New York Post, with comments including:

“Selena Gomez is crying because of mass deportations. She says she, ‘Doesn’t know what to do.’ Did she ever cry about the Americans k*lled by illegals? Of course not.”

“Selena Gomez filmed herself ugly crying about the current mass deportations,” commentator Savanah Hernandez posted. “Because of course the out of touch celebrity with zero understanding of how dangerous our country has become is crying for the criminals being deported. How pathetic.”