Box of delight

“I can’t do it!’, he shrieked. His 7-year-old frame shook, fist curled he glared at me. Furious that I had put him in this position, or with himself – it was impossible to tell.  Today was clearly tough for this student – much of it spent huddled beneath the teacher’s desk. Too many half hour lessons, too many transitions compounded by having me, a supply teacher.

Plus, whatever else was happening in his life.

Do you ever suffer from self-doubt?  I hope so!  If I met a Head who told me they never doubted themselves, then… Put it this way: I wouldn’t want my children at their school!

You become resilient by dealing with small-scale stress’s that you’re able to learn from. Women have many more opportunities to do that in their lives than men do, in part because they have more exposure to the stresses that come from being excluded from the privileges that come automatically to little boys and that continues throughout women’s lives as they carry different burdens and expectations from men. Women still carry more child rearing responsibilities. They carry more of the emotional load in families.