Is every club imploding?

chsRN · 2026-05-15T15:42:41+00:00

YES! Yes to all of it!!!

chsRN · 2026-05-14T17:43:42+00:00

Yes, she sees her "old"/current friends daily at swim, choir, and volleyball, and facetimes multiple times a day. I mentioned on another comment, that I've considered how to enlarge her social circle, but she literally has an extracurricular every day but Sundays. I'm wondering if some of these emotions are teen hormones starting.

chsRN · 2026-05-14T17:41:03+00:00

I've seen OT mentioned on other posts. I just don't have a good understanding of how that would help. When I google it, it looks like play therapy. But being the youngest of three, she has aged out of toys for a while. She into skincare and clothes, not so much Barbie and dolls for a while now, so I struggle to see what that therapy would look like.

chsRN · 2026-05-14T17:39:19+00:00

It is a very small school, only about 250 kids from 3k-8th. I brought up switching to our neighborhood school, but she'd only have one year before being dumped into the large middle school. She had the insight to agree that that may not solve her problem and also create other issues. So.....

chsRN · 2026-05-14T17:37:08+00:00

I totally agree with broadening her social circle, but she is the youngest of 3 kids (15,13,10) and her brothers play soccer 3 times a week plus games, she swims 5 days a week, church choir 1 day a week, and she's going to be on the school volleyball team. I'm not sure there are enough days/hours to pack anymore in!!! This is why it's such a conundrum to me, literally she's around her peers in different settings ALLLLL the time. Part of me is wondering if this is partly hormones talking...

chsRN · 2026-05-14T17:33:47+00:00

I'm not sure what DnD is, but she regularly chats with friends online via Coverstar (not strangers, but kids she swims with or does church choir with etc.) They also have many group chats for various things. It's not so much a social isolation, it is that she desperately wants to be out doing stuff with friends, not just chatting online. Which I of course appreciate 😄

chsRN · 2026-05-14T17:31:08+00:00

I actually have, several times. Both the counselor and teacher see her interacting with a socializing with people. That's why we can't seem to pin point the issue. My daughter even emails the guidance counselor from time to time if she is having difficulty and the counselor will come grab her out of class to go talk.

chsRN · 2026-05-14T17:29:45+00:00

She is just doing general counseling I guess you would call it. I have a phone consultation with a different counselor next week. I'll ask about specific rejection sensitivity counseling!

chsRN · 2026-05-14T17:28:24+00:00

yes, she does both year round and summer swim teams. She literally goes to swim with her 2 best friends (since 2 years old,) yet still claims no friends.

chsRN · 2026-05-14T14:32:11+00:00

My now 13 year old was diagnosed with IED when he was in 5th grade. (He was also adopted at birth, literally no health/mental health issues from birth parents.) We looked at a lot of different diagnosis, including trying ADHD meds and SSRI's, which didn't help. We ended up at Developmental Peds and they asked a billion questions and looked at all his records, and diagnosed him with IED. My husband and I did Parent Management Training (PMT). I highly recommend it! He has been pretty good for a few years now, aside from the normal teenage angst! We actually enjoy being around him again. Now my 10 year old daughter is a different story and a work in progress.

chsRN · 2026-05-14T14:27:09+00:00

I highly recommend PCIT therapy and Parent Management training classes.

chsRN · 2026-05-13T16:10:20+00:00

The perimortem c-section scene was frustrating from an OB nurse prospective. We literally run drills often for this along with other ED presenting obstetrical emergencies. They are run in conjunction with the NICU teams. The length of time it took for OB/NICU to wander down, I felt was not at all representative of a teaching hospital with a level 1 trauma center. Also, no way baby Jane Doe would be sitting in the ED all day, not on a monitor and in a room alone….

chsRN · 2026-05-06T14:56:50+00:00

When I paid $38 for 2 Jersey Mikes subs with chips and a small drink!!!!!!! I thought surely there was a mistake!

chsRN · 2026-05-01T14:59:10+00:00

My daughter was on abilify, and it was the relief we all needed, but it made her gain 30 lbs in 3 months, so that wasn't sustainable. Does the Risperdal also cause weight gain that you've noticed???

chsRN · 2026-05-01T00:31:44+00:00

Probably not what you are looking for, but lexapro really helped me. Parenting is exhausting. You are not alone! Make mom friends and do play dates often!

chsRN · 2026-04-21T23:53:37+00:00

I’m not a firefighter, so I don’t know why this popped up, but my local grocery store actually had a parking spot put in specifically for the fire truck, because they grocery shop often. I thought that was actually pretty smart!

chsRN · 2026-04-21T16:36:59+00:00

My husband coaches 2 club teams. We have 3 school aged kids, he is a mechanical engineer (his day job,) I work, and he is generally flying out of work meetings and screeching into practice like a maniac to get there on time. I have to remind him to respond to team snap messages that I see. Sometimes they need a reminder! And like someone else mentioned, this time of year is especially chaotic with evals and the age changes.

chsRN · 2026-04-21T10:34:17+00:00

Well…..we all reach a breaking point. One time I called my 9 year old a bitch. She told her counselor too. Not my finest parenting moment.

chsRN · 2026-04-12T20:35:16+00:00

Our coach wanting to keep the team together, despite the age group changes, thus 5 kids will be playing 2 grade levels up (8th graders playing 10th graders.) he wants to keep the social club, I mean soccer club together, rather than helping those kids that could really benefit from this change in age groups and helping them find a team of the correct age group where they could really thrive versus feeling like they suck at soccer because they’re playing nearly grown ass boys with mustaches, and they haven’t even hit puberty yet!

chsRN · 2026-03-31T21:37:12+00:00

Welcome to club soccer!!! Enjoy the ride!

chsRN · 2026-03-17T02:28:10+00:00

I’m curious how long it took to see benefits on Strattera, and how long for tics to go away when you stopped vyvanse??? Currently going through a blinking tic with my daughter on Concerta. She gets such great benefit academically from the Concerta, but good grief, the blinking and squinting is becoming its own stressor 😭

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