Others don’t want to disappoint but quickly feel that they are wading through quicksand and cannot maintain the pace. Some children and teens can very easily manage to juggle huge timetables full of activities and still thrive mentally. Are there signs that they are struggling?Įach child has a different threshold for how much they can juggle.Are our expectations in the right place – encouraging them to achieve but not pushing to the brink of collapse.How much time do children/teens have to just ‘be bored’, self-care rest – this is when we process our days.What is the balance between school, extra curricular, sports and social opportunities alongside downtime?.

Therefore, ensuring that we structure their time carefully is vital. Their inbuilt desire to meet expectations can often mean that they will push through these emotions and the first indicator we see is at the point their symptoms become quite extreme. However, for a child (and an adult) this can quickly make their world feel overwhelming and out of control. A s the world operates 24/7, our diaries become filled with back to back events, commitments and social situations. Diaries are so busy they leave little/no time for downtime and lead to overwhelmĬareful monitoring therefore becomes paramount to helping strike a careful balance.Diaries are heavy in only one or two areas which leads to dissatisfaction.Diaries are too quiet and have no focus, leading to isolation, to.This can be for a number of reasons, but frequently, when we examine our lives things have fallen out of sync. Sometimes, we can find ourselves in a situation where our mood is dropping and we cannot quite work out the reason why. How busy is too busy? How quiet is too quiet?

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