PUE: to U 2! Inside...Out!

Another step back: This time in the form of what we psychologists refer to as a form of "neurosis" as well as a bit of a "compulsion" which, in combination, forms a "neurotic compulsion" or what I offer up to those so inclined...a type of "neurotic repetition" or, if you prefer as in "if I say so to my-Selfie" given that it is my own current pre-occupation...revisiting the scene of the crime, in my head, over and over again...

"It's one thing..." As in "Ok this first thing, while annoying and a bit disruptive in its own right, might be tolerable...even acceptable with time...but what follows is completely intolerable..." Herein applied, stepping back to what happened to the experienced school psychologist, who thought he had seen and heard it all, until he met his match...I mean it's one thing to get outmatched, from time to time...something I had gotten used to at recess! and beyond, in earlier years, but it's another thing entirely to get out-witted..."schooled" by someone so much younger and less experienced...A bit traumatizing, eh? Well, how would YOU feel if brought to your knees, called out, in front of fellow professionals, some of whom you thought you just 'bested' (the ones that could not solve the riddle of why the boy under investigation had a ball of dog poop cupped, balled up in his hands...see September 24th for the full affect, sensory experience)... talking real creative content, no AI here...

"Moving on, forward" Some words that might nudge one ahead when they are mired in a 'crappy' situation, a negative thought loop...self-talk, in this case. To a place and time that you also might relate to, one you've probably been...on occasion. Certainly, unless you are a preteen reading this ("Welcome!") you've already experienced the sights, sounds, multi-sensory ins and outs of a stage of life that developmental psychologists refer to as the period during which things, at least on the surface, look quiet...during which time "sexual energy is repressed...or at least dormant..." AKA "Latency Stage😕😖" Which eventually leads to the "P-U"!stage😈😝😠😟...a fun little exercise for those immersed in the first, as to why they feel and think "so weird!" who are starting to show signs of the next stage..."What are the first two letters of Puberty?" Which usually, at least in my office (not so much earlier, in the safety of my own home) brings about lots of discussion, and still unanswered questions...

Multi-applications: Of all the fore-going, as to what happens when the meteorological prognostication, on a day that already started about a bit tenebrous ("dark, shadowy, or obscure..." kind of like the mood that can be brought about by the age, stage, where those little things called hormones start running about...) and now accompanied by thunder, lightning...at least within a five mile radius -- which seems to be the new barometer...for when not to call off recess! entirely, but move it in-doors...to either the so-called "Multi-purpose room" where kids can still have freedom of movement...but way more often to what ends up serving as such...the same room they've been in since the beginning...of the day, at least (i.e., the classroom immediately converted to an approximation of a playground)...

Recessed, re-envisioning:  As in seeing it through someone else's eyes, from their point of view...an attempt at empathy, when so many seem so self-absorbed, with "feeling weird!" As to what happens when you try to take a bunch of "school children" with PEU (as in "Pent Up Energy" -- of all kinds, according to developmental psychologists, especially Freudians who seem so hung up on sex...) and  limit them to what they refer to as "bored" games -- the ones that have pieces missing, from being "strewn!" around the room, from an earlier recess! period held in-doors...And, of course, from the stand-point of the one adult stuck in the room with this restless bunch -- the SUPER!-visor: "I didn't sign up for this...only to be outside where I can keep my distance...I mean, these tweeners are so...naturally...(they, themselves, admit to feeing a bit weird!) as in...

Spaced Out! "I mean, it's fine and dandy to watch them prepping to dock to the Mother Ship...the ones sitting atop the "Jungle Gym" (slightly re-arranged, renamed "Playscape" but essentially, still responsible for a per-capita disproportionate share of broken bones and bruises than all the inside recesses put together)...but a whole different scenario when these "pent up" playmates are attempting to re-create through stacking desks..."get down here, right now...or else! Better yet, get me...

"Outta' here!" Where all the stake-holders are in agreement, after spending some time inside, after working up a bit of a sweat😢👃😝, after the SUPER!visor has gotten hot under the collar, all of which collectively adds to the stagnant air, regardless of how many windows you might crack! (from bored games parts being strewn! about) The cry for help! when recess has to be put on pause, due to what's now referred to more often as IN-clement conditions...and what happens when you don't offer sufficient out-lets for this stage, age, to "go out and blow off some steam, as there's been no rumble for the last few minutes..." Whereas, on the other end of the age...continuum, the risk of stagnation, if they don't force themselves to get up, move around, stack some desks (or whatever) before you begin to a-trophy, without the weirdos to chase around...once they're through PUberty, up and gone...

Your choice: Next: Carrying On, pre-post recess! Mirror Images.