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| Tue, 03-27-2007 - 6:00am |
DD is really feeling stressed these days - she decided to do Varsity Softball this term, and it's a 4-5 day a week commitment - practice T,Th, games M,W,F - until mid-may. Tuesdays she has to leave the house at 6am (hence why I'm awake at this horrible hour!) for practice - but the good news is she'll be home at a reasonable hour. Coursework has been heavy, too, and she's feeling very frustrated.
Under this stress, even the friends and boyfriend become a source of stress - finding time to hang out with them, listening to everyone else's stress....
Last night, she spent 15-20 minutes just venting at me...then took a deep breath and said "thanks for listening to my tirade!". Poor thing - just too stressy.
Good thing vacation is coming up next week!!
Sue

Rose
Oh I can relate! DD is still making up work from missing all that time with mono, plus her normal school load (she did end up dropping the honors english, probably a good thing). She just started Lacrosse yesterday. That is a Mon-Sat commitment (this week 3-5 every day, next week 5-7). She has cheering/tumbling, Tues. from 7:30-8:30, Wed. 5:30-6:30, Thurs. 7:30-8:30. She's supposed to do it Fridays too, but oh well.... then she has cheering from 6-9 Sundays. She had a total meltdown over the weekend and poor bf was the recipient - she was just hating how their schedules completely conflict. When she has early Lax practice, he has late baseball practice and when he has early baseball practice, she has late Lax practice. When she has home games, he has away games, etc etc... She still has physical therapy twice a week too....
I will say she got a total kick out of doing lacrosse. It should be interesting! It is definitely something new to her, going from being a prissy little cheerleader to playing a physical sport like lacrosse. She the tiniest player on the team and here's to hoping she doesn't "break" this season too!
We are still 2 weeks away from Spring Break - it can't come soon enough!!
I hear you there. The school musical is coming up and they justed upped the rehearsal schedule to 8 hours per week (afterschool) from now until the show. This will be week number one with this schedule, and I suspect that by the end of the week my son will be venting too.
stacy
Well, as you know ... bt and am still doing that! This past weekend, C was at a Model UN conference in a community about 45 minutes away. They started early Saturday morning, were kept up until nearly midnight Saturday night, then were up, dressed, checked-out of the hotel by 8:00 so they could have breakfast and start again by 9:00! When I picked her up Sunday afternoon, she was, in a word, WASTED. Of course the fact that she was able to get to bed no early than 11:00 the whole week didn't help!
Since little in the way of homework got done over the weekend -- none actually -- I gave her a sleep-in/mental health day yesterday, which she totally appreciated. I let her sleep 'til 9:00 then got her up to get going on her schoolwork. She got it done and even had time to watch a couple episodes of CSI that she had TiVo'd.
I hope L gets some good decompression time next week! We don't get ours until the week of the 9th of April. {{{Hugs to you both ...}}}
My son just finished his high school's musical. He would have LOVED an 8-hour a week rehearsal schedule. Since the beginning of January, they've been rehearsing 2:30-5 p.m. every day after school (12.5 hours) plus Sunday afternoon choreography rehearsals from 2-5 p.m. The last two weeks before the show, most weeknights he wasn't getting home until between 6 and 7 p.m. Add to that, advanced chorale rehearsals every Sunday from 5;30 to 7:30 p.m., and you've got one exhausted boy.
At parent-teacher conferences yesterday, every one of his teachers said some variant of "I bet you're glad the show is over--now you have time to breathe again." Yup. He can't wait until Thursday afternoon, when spring break officially begins.
The last three weeks before his show, he did a lot of ranting--about other kids, the director, etc. I was just there as a sounding board for him to blow off steam. I'm glad it's going to be spring break, too--I hated seeing him so stressed.
Elizabeth
I have a feeling that's what we will be up against next year. Between drama, chorale, and concert choir.. he'll be busy.
Anyone who says that you're lucky your kid isn't in sports, refering to the stess of their practice/game schedule, has never had a kid in drama/music.
stacy
The quarter ends this week so my kids are a little stressed trying to get in last minute things and securing their A's. Also, AP exams are coming so they are hunkering down and trying to get good scores. The triplet's stress level has lowered a little because college acceptances have come out this past week, but now they are worried about making a wrong decision. And of course there are sports, jobs, and significant others to add to the stress. They all need spring break.
Stephanie