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can you imagine what everybody with the name daniel has been going through the last few days

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x; phil

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A CAMEL RUNNING DOWN THE MOTORWAY

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A little tip for parents with children in school (or for children in school to show their parents)

My mom gave me and my sister two days every semester that she called “mental health days.”

Those were days, that for ANY reason, and without having to tell my mom the reason, we could skip the day of school. We’d just tell her we were taking a mental health day and she’d call the school and let them know we were not coming in. 

#1 This helped keep our grades up by lowering our stress levels. I never got a C in any grade school class. The majority of my classes I received A’s. I also took 4 AP classes and they were not weighted. Trust me, it made a difference.

#2 I never felt the need to skip school. I knew if I ever wanted to or needed to my mom would help me. 

Your kids are young and need time to recover. They need some days where they can do nothing but stay in bed for no reason. They need their own space where their privacy is respected. It will make a huge difference.

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I would like to add something to this for the teachers too! (I may have already told this story on tumblr but OH WELL I’m telling it again)

One of my math teachers in high school had a policy called The Red Beanbags of Don’t Bother Me. He kept a pile of red beanbags on his desk, and at any time of the day you could go over and take one. From that point on, as long as you were in his classroom with a beanbag on your desk, no one could bother you. He wouldn’t call on you to answer problems, no students were allowed to talk to you, and perhaps most importantly, no one could ask why you took a bean bag that day. The only caveat was that if you used the beanbag more than three times in a semester you had to go talk to the school counselor about it.

I only used the beanbag a handful of times during those 4 years, but it was a godsend when I needed it. I knew people who would camp in his classroom during lunch (or even skip class and stay there all day) under the protection of the beanbag. As a teacher there’s not always a lot you can do for a student suffering mental illness/emotional abuse/ other struggles, but giving them some space and privacy in your class can make a HUGE difference.

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Posts like this can save lives.

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At the start of every school year, my sixth and seventh grade history teacher would read us a kids book called “Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day.” The book was about this kid that was having a crappy day and how he wanted to move to Australia so that things would stop being so awful. After he’d read us the book he’d point to a desk with walls in the back of the room with picture books and a sketch pad and sometimes it even had a supply of gummy candies that he called “Australia” and proceeded to tell us that if we ever had a terrible horrible no good very bad day we could sit in Australia for the duration of the class period. Nobody was allowed to talk to you if you were sitting in Australia and you were allowed to listen to your iPod as long as other students couldn’t hear it. I did the best in his class because I didn’t ever feel pressured to work when I was stressed or sad. I wanted to do the work for his class because I felt like he was, by far, the most understanding of my teachers, and I wanted to make him proud. Mental health is super important, and helping kids move through it with a mental health day or a red beanbag of don’t bother me or a class period in Australia is so much better for kids than telling them to suck it up and get their work done.

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