Meeting... really don't know how it went...

[Jeffju]

I had a meeting today with several people including the mother of the special needs child I work with. It went fairly well but there were areas lacking which have been out of my control. Why is it then that I feel so deflated after the meeting and quite down??

I have been trying my very best, but ,without expert advice and support it is hard. I have had to do all her programming myself . I did work in a pre-school for many years so have a few ideas however I am not a trained teacher.

I guess this is all about how we try to be perfect and when it doesn't work we get down and are hard on ourselves.

Ah, well another day tomorrow.

Hope you are all as well as can be out there. Julie xx

[Suzie40]

Julie I completely understand this feeling. I come out of meetings feeling so depressed sometimes. And it's exactly what you describe - wanting perfection. For me it's also because I'm a bit of a control freak; I don't like people telling me a new way to do something that's not the way I like doing it. I know from my own job that working with children is an exhausting job with very few answers. We try so hard to get things right, but the needs of the little person are so important, it can feel devastating when things don't go well. Even, as you say, when they are things out of our control. Hope you're ok xx

[Jeffju]

Thanks for that. Have had a few tears but am having an early night in the hope it will all look better in the morning.Now I have some support in place hopefully things will get better . Thanks again, Julie xx