YOU’VE TAUGHT ME SOMETHING

The past year has been overwhelming. Isolation, financial and social worries... so many worries, like an avalanche of negativity. I’m a teacher, and there has been so much teacher bashing. We haven’t worked enough, we want to be paid more, we don’t care, we take too many risks, we don’t take enough... It is toughest, however, to see the impact of lockdown on the children, and that anxiety isn’t just an adult problem. Our woes have entered the world of children.

Your magazine has opened my mind to the ways that I can distance my emotions when necessary and embrace them when needed. I am filtering those strategies to help the children off-load more, engage more and explore their worries.