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A teenage friend revealed — in front of his mother! — that sometimes, he doesn’t want to play video games.
I suppose three months of being on lockdown will do that to even the most devoted gamer.
“Sometimes, I just feel like…why am I playing?” And when this thought occurs to him, he might get up to eat or use the bathroom. Maybe he’ll even go outside.
Read MoreThere are times when that elusive quarry known as “productivity” is impossible to get ahold of.
Grief, stress, and anxiety are like RAM-intensive applications running in the background of your mind, hogging all the resources and leaving you with only a sliver of processing power to complete your work.
Sometimes, you can still spend the afternoon putting in the time and going through the motions. A day of being present in body only isn’t much of a setback. But if you’re working from home — or worse, working for yourself — day after day without being able to focus, you might need to do something differently. In this article, I’ll share my tips for being productive when I’m exhausted, distracted, or overwhelmed and the work still has to get done.
Read MoreThere’s a lot going on right now. Many of us have experienced dramatic changes to our lifestyle and livelihood.
Any one of these changes would be a lot to get used to and would require a period of adjustment, and they’re all hitting at once.
On top of that, many of us are sick. And people are dying. That’s reality.
Read MoreWhen you begin with the belief that everyone wants to learn, it stimulates a lot of high quality problem-solving.
As a teacher, I can’t just write off a student as lazy, disobedient, unintelligent, or unmotivated. If something isn’t working, I see it as my responsibility to find something else that will.
What to do with a student who struggles to turn in work on time (or at all)? Who looks at an assignment and immediately gets overwhelmed?
Read MoreWho knows how exhausted this parent was or how many flights he and his toddler had been on that day.
However, it’s likely that he was no more exhausted than any other parent of a toddler. Jet lag is a relatively minor inconvenience compared to the intensity of life with a tiny, strong-willed person who wants to do everything.
The two of them were sitting together on the plane when he went to unzip her jacket.
“NO!” she said loudly. “ME DO!”
Read MoreMany adolescents are like periwinkles. They get so overwhelmed by the demands of school that they shut themselves tightly into their shells.
Some kids deal with school overwhelm by focusing on their social life or a preferred hobby to the exclusion of all else. The lucky ones have a few trusted friends or a peaceful family life to come home to. Others can’t find a safe harbor in any aspect of their lives.
While this feels like an emergency situation — and it absolutely can be — intensifying the pressure will only make things worse.
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