Not really to be honest, she has nice friends and sheâs a great girl,
Sometimes things get on top of her, hard to explain it, but sheâs fine most of the time. Sheâs full of brains but her school is high pressure,
Covid hasnât helped obviously, a lot of the normality has been removed from life, difficult when youâre making your way on the world, worse for these kids than for college age IMO
Cheers. Yeah it can be a worry - can just do the best you can by them
Thatâs hard going on the kid
Ever try TMS?
TM meditation- worth a try
Will ease anxiety once he gives it time
But it does take time
You still are 
The moral panic about young people and social media is a replacement of the moral panic about young people and video games, young people and horror movies, young people and television, young people and rock nâroll etc.
I think it impacts older users as much as it does its younger users. I suppose itâs just that younger people use it that bit more, might have a bit more (time) invested in it, that the stakes are somewhat higher.
I suppose in 20 years time, we will be blaming the robots that kids have in their lives as the reason for their anxieties.
We did some kind of religious in-school retreat thin when we were 16/17 (probably LC year). The crowd running in got into mental health stuff (this was the late 90s), and we were encouraged to share our anxieties and so on. Two girls (both quite balanced I would have thought) shared that they both had suicide attempts (one tried it twice). I was caught completely on the hop that day as it wasnât something we openly discussed back then. In fairness, nobody brought it up ever again after leaving that classroom that day.
PS I donât think Iâm making any coherent point here about the correlation (if any) between media and anxiety, or about either of them separately. Iâm just gone off on a ramble.
I donât have kids so I canât comment really on this.
But to me the likes of Facebook and Instagram play on peopleâs insecurities and teenagers are prime fodder for that in my view.
It shouldnât be a problem for those who are strong mentally but for others it canât be very healthy.
This is a great book that everyone can take something from. I have it on audible and listen to random chapters⌠Highly recommended to everyone here no matter where youâre at in life.
I always wondered how you were so mentally tough, such a strong minded character and independent thinker.
Now I know.
I couldnât keep it to myself for much longer.
Enjoy it pal.
Namu MyĹhĹ Renge KyĹ!
Absolutely. And rememberâŚ
Irrumabo Tipperariensi
Mind ye donât harm yourselves ye delicate bitches.
You should 100% get a professional to talk to him, even to have someone to listen to him and advise you. Well worth the money
Good man Spidey 
Heâs sitting on a bridge skulling cans with the young lad after they sparked out a father son combo down at training earlier .
The outcome weâd all like to hear (as long as spideys young fella is at least 13).
All good this week so far. Young lad is 7. The other guy sits on another table - think they paint again Friday. Iâve told him to be ready for him just in case.
Oh stand up in the middle of the room in front of the rest of the class and the teacher and sock him straight into the gob. 7 years old or not.
Problem solved, you can be garaunteed.
I had a nephew who was getting a bit of a hard time in school off another chap for years. His mother kept telling him he should tell the teacher each time. Teacher and school would pull the other lad up on it in fairness and once or twice parents were notified etc but eventually itâd happen again. He was fierce nervous about going into 6th. He said it usually happened on the yard during games or soccer or whatever. Heâd make a mistake and your man would take the piss out of him, how he ran etc or mock him or heâd kick the legs off him âtackling himâ when he knew a teacher wasnât looking and then claim it was an accident, that type of thing.
So anyway the brother puts the foot down the Sunday evening before returning to school with the young lad all anxious about this going on again in 6th. âYouâve tried it your way, it didnât work, now weâre going to try this wayâ he says to the wife 
Tells the young lad that at the very first sign of anything happening he had full permission to box the kid straight in the mouth and stand your ground. Donât worry about being in trouble with the teachers, weâll sort that out he says, tell them youâre standing up for yourself from now on.
Nothing until the Thursday. The other lad starts mocking him over not passing him the ball and kicks the ball straight at him âby accidentâ. The young lad walks over and hits him a box. The school were on about suspending him, his mother freaking out. Do whatever ye want to says the brother, but itâll happen again next week when heâs back if it continues. School didnât suspend.
He hasnât had a single issue with the other lad or any of his gang since. âJob is oxoâ as a great man once said
The way of the jungle.
Felllas will leave you alone if the they think theyâre going to get badly hurt
I told Ben and Jerry, when they were back in primary, that if anyone ever started on them as individuals, that the other one would row in behind straight away. This was to show that if your fucked with one of them youâd have to deal with two of them. They both had full permission to box in the playground if someone started on them.
At the time and even now both of them wouldnât knock snow off a rope, but it gives them some reassurance at least.
