Colleges and suicide

emeraldkity4
Fri, 03 Dec 2004 22:36:23 +0000

my kids have mental health days too. I mean IMO if you don’t take time to take a break your body will make you by getting sick, so you might as well be proactive about it and enjoy your day off instead of spending it sweating on the couch.
My oldest often did not want to take a day off cause she was worried about getting behind in school. Even when her school gave her a week for college visits jr and senior year she didn’t take one day. However when she was getting stressed I noticed before she did and I would suggest taking a day off, she would plan it for the best time and we would have a nice time together.
everybody needs a break, most of the time these students do quite well with their mulitiple obligations but I think because most of their time is dictated by others that is more stressful than if they were deciding their priorities. Sometimes teachers act like their class is the only one and assign heavy reports without checking with other teachers to see what else is due. It doesn’t matter if you are in AP classes or not, you still need a break.