Parenting

When your teen’s “Lasts” hit hard

Standing on the sidelines cheering my daughter at her soccer game yesterday, it hit me. This is probably her last year of playing for this team. And with that realization I started to think about the year ahead.

• The last field hockey game (and the walking down with our senior).
• The last high school soccer game.
• The last day of school, and graduation.

Nicole C Weiss LCSW

• Phone: 619-318-5012
• Email: [email protected]

Today, my daughter asked me what my New Year’s resolution was. I told her I would like to be calmer and truth be told this was a resolution that I made several times last year. In 2017 I was trying to be calmer, or to put it another way, clinically-manage my frustration tolerance better. I improved but not as much as I wanted to. I think the reason for my failure was that I hadn’t fully embraced why I lose my cool.I hadn’t fully accepted that I use frustration to avoid being direct.

Nicole C Weiss LCSW

• Phone: 619-318-5012
• Email: [email protected]