MOC 11 - Day 10 Photos And Words
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New Year's Eve (and the few days leading up to and after) are the perfect time to reflect upon the past 12 months... There has been a lot of that going on here and these are my thoughts... I used the photo of my son - because the reflection is mostly about him and the way we parent him and the effect these past couple of years have had on him... Thank you for looking.
My journaling reads:
There is something magical about pondering life in the early hours. One of the realizations that hit us that night was the fact that - cliche cliche - every cloud has a silver lining. Even covid. Had Katie not found it impossible to cope and had she not been failing in every subject, her ADHD would have surely gone undetected and she would have never gotten the help she so desperately needed.
Yet school on-line was incredibly damaging to Michal, who had lost all his real freinds, got plenty of new - virtual - ones and was careening towards a total nervous breakdown. Which went largely unnoticed by us because all our focus was on Katie. Not intentional, but...
While I spent hours talking to Katie, trying to understand what she felt and needed, Michal spent days and weeks left to his own devices - both figuratively and literally. His sleep cycle became irregular, he rarely shared meals with us, started neglecting his schoolwork and spent most of his waking hours staring at a device - computer, phone, iPad... often all three at the same time. All the while we were congratulating ourselves on handling our daughter's newly discovered mental disorder like real pros and believing that Michal's behavior was little more than age-appropriate combativeness.
Not a very festive chat it was, but it revealed how both of us were on the same page and reaffirmed what we knew: together we make a great team.
