A blog about all sorts of things!
The Australian government wants to ban kids under 16 from using social media. They put up an option for people to put in submissions and it was open for only 24 hours. I didn’t have time to do one, however here are my thoughts. I understand there are issues with social media. There is bullying,…
I am completely burned out. I have been burned out for a lot longer than I realised. Burn out may look different for different people. For me, I am fatigued, sleep doesn’t make much of a difference. I don’t wake up rested. My brain doesn’t seem to function properly. I forget things, overthink, can’t settle…
I see a lot written about how perfectionism is a ‘trauma response’ and often blame parents for this. This take irritates me no end. I recently got into a discussion on Threads about this. Someone posted that she was positive her strive for being perfect didn’t come from her parents, and I completely agree. Looking…
Over on Threads, I saw a status talking about how labelling a child ‘gifted’ will mean the child won’t put in the ‘hard work’. While this may be true on some level, there is something else happening here. I was one of those kids who found things easy. I would be taught a concept and…
One thing I’ve been trying to work on is seeing that I am good enough. Not only that, I’m all kinds of amazing. I’ve been reflecting on this lately, wondering where the messages that I’m somehow not good enough come from. Recently, it hit me… At school, my ‘worth’ was based on my grades. No…
One of my favourite holidays growing up was a holiday at home. My parents made a big deal to everyone about how we were going away, I think it was for a week. One evening, we were all packed into the car and drove around. I think we stopped at McDonald’s for dinner, which was…
I realised yesterday that I have never owned a new television in my life! At least, not since I moved out of home when I was 18. When I first moved out, I lived in share houses for a couple of years and the television was owned by my housemates. When I got married, our…
I have always hated being blindfolded. When I was a teenager, there was a youth group activity where people took it in turns to be blindfolded, then were guided to do a series of activities. The idea of this freaked me out and I sat out. I was teased by others in youth group, though…
Earlier today, I saw someone post on Facebook: Imagine… now you have control over your beautiful , powerful mind… This made me laugh, for a simple reason – I never have control over my mind. I never have! My mind often feels like a runaway train going down a hill. It decides to go on…
I have realised that I am an intuitive learner. I pick things up and, in some things, I seem to just know what to do. If you give me some software and let me play, I’ll play around and work out how to use it. If you give me a text book, I’ll follow the…