Post Recess Post: Recess on Paws

How it all began: Or how I stepped, right into this...mess. The impetus for this blog, as well as the more recent variants, variation on the theme. The one that first prompted me, as a veteran mental health professional, who had at least thought I'd seen and heard it all which could, if one is not cautious, overly confident, lead to a moment of humiliation...to pause and consider "...just how do they expect me to continue practicing in such a viral environment...with all these vicissitudes..." Remember the title, which I conjured up, in order to bring your/our attention, to all those things that come at us, which may have not been of our choosing, or doing, but we have little choice over, but can decide how to engage...If not, just hearken back, 584 steps/posts, perhaps just a 'cursor'ee review of any given few, what we, in Stat 101, called a "random sample". About how you and I might find ways to continue surviving, until such a day we might return to "thrival" (a word I have often used in my initial meetings as an aspirational goal...). After which, after I find that most of you have returned to a degree of "normalcy" (which lately, if you haven't been a regular here, has included an assist from Yours Truly, in getting you back to work and school). What others in my biz might simply refer to as having the situation "well in hand". Read here as a semblance of control. Or, in my case, what I thought resembled, other previous situations I had encountered which had led me to become over-confident, even a little bit jaded (sorry Miley), before which I had all-ways embraced being among students of all ages and stages...

Life Long Learners: What you and I of course strive for, which turns out to be a combination of those lessons we seek out, even purchase, in the form of in or "out of state" tuition...lots and lots of courses. The ones that are both formally taught, bought, a few of which are only accessible after you've taken lots of pre-requisites...Others that are more informal, other-wise referred to as the more unexpected, spontaneous ones that come to us more naturally in the form of "life's lessons..." Which, depending on the eyes and mind of the be-'holder' (check out the fore-shadowing here) might bring one to conclude "God's sure got a strange sense of humor..." Which can come in many forms, shapes, at the most unexpected, if not inconvenient moments, conditions...such as when the whole class of students ("how could I have known?!") were watching, listening...for how I, as the well-worn, battle tested, "School Psychologist" would handle this...

Belittling: Moment, which I had initially dismissed ("belittling": dismissive of the importance of a person or...thing, or both, in this case). Which I simply, blithely tried to respond to, brush off as "It's no big deal...I can come back from this, as this is such a target rich environment, this classroom, let alone what just had apparently occurred...out on the playground...let's move on already....!" So I was bit taken back, humiliated just "this much" (picture my thumb and forefinger, pinched). Better this, than what the child in question, the one that I didn't bother to ask...had in his possession...

You'll have to come back once more for a come-back of their own making...

Next: all balled up, a Post Recess Quagmire..."I really stepped into this one..."