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Jun. 1st, 2018 09:16 amI got myself a laptop! I'm typing with it now. It's quite lovely. It's been really handy this week, since I am the only one in at the library and am pretty much stuck at the circulation desk while's it has been very slow. The summer folks having really started going yet so we're really slow. I've had only about one or two people in every day. I have tidied up the main floor several times. The place never looked so good!
Anxiety's still an issue. And I'm still trying to take care of it. I seem to cycle between good and bad weeks. Actually, I would say that my general anxiety levels are much, much better overall. It's the panic attacks that I'm still really struggling with. *sigh*
I took Finn off the soccer team. He breaks down crying every practice and game and cries for a bit after each practice. He is, in all fairness, pretty distractable, but the coach has pretty low tolerance of it and it's starting to effect his relationship with his teammates, who have started calling him names and, at the last game, one of them kicked him then laughed at him. So much for playing for fun at age 7, right? With everything going on it just didn't seem worth spending the time and effort making Finn do something that was making him so miserable. I got some blow back from his coach, but Finn's former coach (for several years) is now the head of the local kids soccer league and he helped handle the situation and told me Finn's is welcome to go back with another coach in the fall. I doubt we will at this point, but I really do appreciate the gesture.
I'm dumbfounded at how many people seem to take soccer so serious at such a young age. I mean, Finn's never going to be a big soccer player. I know that. And I figured he'd stop before they started being really competitive (they don't even keep score at this age group) because Finn is spacey. He's much better suited (and enjoys) track and swim. I can see him keeping with those in his teen years. But man, you should hear some of the parents at the games. There's this one poor kid on Finn's team who has a teenage brother who screams at her the whole game. Any slight "mistake" she makes he says he's going to make her run X miles or do x many drills and his mom just seems to go with it! THEY ARE SEVEN.
Any who, normally I would want Finn to finish out the season but at this point it really isn't worth it. Not if he's breaking down in tears every time he plays.
Anxiety's still an issue. And I'm still trying to take care of it. I seem to cycle between good and bad weeks. Actually, I would say that my general anxiety levels are much, much better overall. It's the panic attacks that I'm still really struggling with. *sigh*
I took Finn off the soccer team. He breaks down crying every practice and game and cries for a bit after each practice. He is, in all fairness, pretty distractable, but the coach has pretty low tolerance of it and it's starting to effect his relationship with his teammates, who have started calling him names and, at the last game, one of them kicked him then laughed at him. So much for playing for fun at age 7, right? With everything going on it just didn't seem worth spending the time and effort making Finn do something that was making him so miserable. I got some blow back from his coach, but Finn's former coach (for several years) is now the head of the local kids soccer league and he helped handle the situation and told me Finn's is welcome to go back with another coach in the fall. I doubt we will at this point, but I really do appreciate the gesture.
I'm dumbfounded at how many people seem to take soccer so serious at such a young age. I mean, Finn's never going to be a big soccer player. I know that. And I figured he'd stop before they started being really competitive (they don't even keep score at this age group) because Finn is spacey. He's much better suited (and enjoys) track and swim. I can see him keeping with those in his teen years. But man, you should hear some of the parents at the games. There's this one poor kid on Finn's team who has a teenage brother who screams at her the whole game. Any slight "mistake" she makes he says he's going to make her run X miles or do x many drills and his mom just seems to go with it! THEY ARE SEVEN.
Any who, normally I would want Finn to finish out the season but at this point it really isn't worth it. Not if he's breaking down in tears every time he plays.
