Attendance

I’ve gotten two emails and have walked by multiple posters at school reminding students and parents about the importance of attending school.

My best guess is that years of telling everyone to stay home when they’re sick is starting to backfire. It’s hard for the kids and the parents to know what to do anymore. Back in my day….I get to say that now because I’m over 40…we just went to school with runny nose or cough. Pretty much, you’d go to school unless you were throwing up or you had a high fever.

I started reading this recently: “ThePost-Traumatic-Growth
Guidebook by Arielle Schwartz, PhD”

I’ll let you know how it goes, but so far some good material about how everyday actions add up to resilience.

Today is my first day back to work on Mondays. I had Mondays off for the summer, because I am contracted with provide therapy/mental health services at a school on Mondays. It’s challenging for me, but hard to explain why. I think it’s the absence of co-workers. Even though I don’t see my co-workers a ton throughout my workday anyway, it still helps to see them for a few minutes at the start and end of the day.

In my third year here, I’m getting to know a couple of the teachers and the school counselor is always helpful with finding the least disruptive times to pull the kids out of class. I remember telling a relative that I was working at a school and she had said, “You’re taking them out of class?!” I’m taking them out of class the least amount to meet the need. These aren’t the kids that are rocking it academically or behaviorally. The goal of therapy is that mental health symptoms go down and functioning at school and home goes up.

Well, that’s a random bit of info about what I’m doing today.

Last but not least, today marks 18 years of marriage for me and an awesome person!!!!

Hope your day is going well 🙂

Love,

Terra Rose