Daily Pics from the WangenSchool: 4.10-4.14.20

The last few days bring a bit of deja vu from last summer. Auggie had a tough end of the summer. Lots of big emotions and frustration.

The first few weeks of quarantine, he was loving it. Lots of Mom and Dad attention, lots of playtime. But with the snow and cold and the novelty worn, his fuse is running a bit shorter. The other members of the family are able to medicate with copious amounts of TikTok and Ozark, but Auggie is feeling the redundancy of screen time right now.

I laugh at the irony of how much I delight in problem-solving other kids behavior, yet I'm slightly too close to the flame to always see the issue with my own.

I realized this morning, he's just reacting to a lack of felt safety. As we get lax on schedules and parents' tolerance runs thin, he is lashing out to express his frustration with the absence of structure and inability to process boredom. Whew.

But here's the peptalk. Here is where we dig deep. And we dig in. We are all starting to be a bit weary around the edges. I see it in my students' faces (via Google Meet of course) and my own kids' patience. I'm holding tight to prayer, to thankfulness, and (to be fully truthful) Netflix.

Cheers to another day.