So many times I catch myself driving to work with my mind thinking about all that needs to be done during the day. Teaching lessons, counseling students, collaborating with teachers, administrators, and outside resources, coordinating small group counseling, attending meetings...just to name a few things....and that is all in the span of about four hours. I am consumed with just the day to day happenings. I need to put on the brakes. I need to reflect. I need to slow down. There is so much to be thankful for. I look at the faces of our kids and see the beauty in them. I feel excited about the potential behind their abilities. Admittedly so, as a school counselor, I don't always get to hear positive things. No....I am not talking about getting "at-a-boys" for myself...I mean the phone calls about a family splitting up and how painful it has been for the kids, for example. Or hearing about a mother who has died suddenly leaving behind three beautiful children...going to the funeral home and loving on them as much as I can. Knowing that I have families here that need help at the holidays. Despite all of that, I am thankful....for time with your children, for getting to know them, for teaching them, for hugging them, for providing snacks for them, for having a safe place for them, for encouraging them, for supporting them, for guiding them, and most of all....for learning from them...I.am.thankful.
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