Comments on: How Parents Can Handle School Burn-out? [Advice Column]

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:34:41 +0000

Thanks! I like your ideas! :) I’ll try them whenever I get the chance.

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:09:50 +0000

Paul,

There are a few things I did when I hit my burn-out lows:

1. Get out of you immediate physical surroundings for a few hours at least. Can you drive to a nearby town and have lunch? Go to a new park across town and play sports. Sometimes just getting out of your same old same old place can really help re-energize.

2. Do something that gives you adrenaline. Studies have shown that adrenaline can really reset your mind and body. Go to a theme park and ride a roller coaster, rock climb at a local gym etc.

3. VENT I have people on my speeddial who i will call and say I need to vent, I hate school I hate work and at the end of it I usually felt better.

4. only do the essential. if you are skipping school, to make sure you pass make a list of the absolute eessential things–maybe skip reading and homework but be sure to get the paper in?

Good luck!
V

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:50:40 +0000

But how should I solve being burned out? I ‘m skipping school right now actually, and I’ve been taking pot in unhealthy settings recently! And I’ve been so much absent from school that I risk not getting some of the grades! I seriously need help with this!

PS: My dad stresses me badly about all this, and it’s been this way for a couple of years. Another thing to note is that I have a tendency to start working on way too many projects at the same time. Work, school, band practice, my girlfriend, making and experimenting with business ideas (I want to be an entrepreneur), I also like languages, and started learning japanese just for fun – something that I of course had to give up, with my schedule.

Hope you can help me improve my situation, and givesome tips! Cause I really need it at the moment!

Paul

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:58:30 +0000

Terry-

Sorry that she has been burnt out, it is totally totally normal. In fact just telling her you understand and finding something to help her relax will probably take a lot of pressure off, good luck!
vanessa

By: terry

terry — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:17:35 +0000

Thanks for the insight and confirmation. My dd has this BAD. She got in to the college of her choice and has been in lots of extra activities and shes just DONE ! I’ve been letting her slack off and miss some days and what I feel bad about is the lying to the school because I have to call in all these absences with “sick” stories. Once I said we were visiting college campus’ which was not true. Any way you helped to make me feel better about allowing her to step back and chill some

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