How about letting go during the break?

On the one hand, we know that children need rest. After all, spring break comes more than two months after the holiday season and heralds the home stretch towards the end of the year. They have a busy schedule with school, daycare, extracurricular activities, fun activities on weekends…phew! A true president's schedule.

Anecdote: A third-grade elementary child once told me, in a weary tone, that she didn't have time to participate in the social skills workshops I offered on Wednesdays noon because this time of the week was his only free time. After the surprise and the scratch on my ego (after all, it's so cool to do an activity with the school's psychoeducator, isn't it?), I understood that she was saying to me: " I'm suffocating, with all the activities I have! I need a break time, a time for me where my time is not organized to the quarter turn! »

By the way, did you know that we are seeing more and more youngand this, from primary school, in burnout? Yes, yes, you read that right. Many young people have so many activities in their schedule that they never have time to breathe, to do nothing, to be bored.

Boredom, he althy and useful

Ah! Boredom! We sometimes haunt him, that one. But boredom is he althy, necessary, and helpful for children to learn who they are, what they like to do, and how to deal with this universal and totally normal feeling.

You, for example, what do you do when you're bored? For my part, I sometimes snack to fill the boredom, to start thinking endlessly and…to worry. And I know that many of us are in this situation, having trouble tolerating boredom. This may be why we overload our schedules and those of our children; to avoid facing this feeling and not bringing it to our offspring?

So why not take advantage of the spring break to let yourself be guided by what tempts you, day by day? To ask children what they want to do? To laze around in pajamas, watch a movie, go play outside, take a walk in the neighborhood, play with pets, invite a friend over, without necessarily having structured activities planned in advance.

Why not let yourself be carried away by our current momentum in order to come back calm, rested and in good shape after spring break?

Have a good rest!