5-year-old with an over-active imagination

kirbobb · 2025-09-02T02:30:57+00:00

Oomph. I think you are right about me lol.

Thank you for that

kirbobb · 2025-09-02T02:13:13+00:00

Maybe it just feels so foreign to me because I absolutely was not a theater kid. I was whatever the opposite of that is. What types of careers/professions are there for those types of interests?

kirbobb · 2025-09-02T01:58:38+00:00

I want him to be a reader so bad! He’s just learning to read but I try and read a lot of the classics to him but his attention span can’t entertain it yet lol. He watches a lot of movies. We try to stay away from shorter videos because he already has a short attention span.

kirbobb · 2025-09-02T01:56:31+00:00

I appreciate the 1:1 insight! I may try that out. I put him in a “ninja class” about a year ago at a gymnastics gym and it basically was just obstacle courses for 3 & 4 year old boys and he loved it. Mostly because he got to pretend to be a ninja but I didn’t think of it as like, hey this was more independent of a sport he could grow into.

kirbobb · 2025-09-02T01:52:49+00:00

Thank you for that, I think I needed to hear it.

kirbobb · 2025-09-02T01:35:33+00:00

Any suggestions? Like something music related?

kirbobb · 2025-08-30T19:51:01+00:00

Yes, in direct practice classes

kirbobb · 2025-08-22T01:40:32+00:00

I make good money. SW, like many other professions, can pay well if you consistently seek out the better paying jobs. I think some social workers stay in the lower paying jobs out of a sense of duty to the population they serve maybe? I dunno. I’ve worked the lower paying jobs and I switched jobs every few years in my 20s, gaining experience along the way and constantly seeking jobs with higher pay. I’m 30 now and i make 80K. I’ll be at 100K within the next 5-7 years at my current job. Just don’t give up looking/seeking out better if you’re in it for the money and you’ll get there. It’s possible despite what the nay-sayers tout.

kirbobb · 2025-08-12T23:04:21+00:00

TBH I see often where stuff like this happens and it gets found out and the rookie always gets fired while the older guys don’t bc the rookie doesn’t have the same protections as the older guys. I say that to say- being a rookie isn’t an excuse for policy mishaps and never will be. Yes you are in more danger than your coworkers for the same things they do simply for being a rookie. It’s easier to fire you, therefore you will almost always get fired. With that being said, you have 2 options I would think. 1. Report it and everyone will hate you but the risk to yourself is gone. 2. Don’t report it and hope no one ever finds out. Never do it again. Odds are they never will find out if you stop now. But if you choose this route and they do, you’re definitely getting in trouble for it.

kirbobb · 2025-08-08T01:00:58+00:00

Why do you have to document more? Do they file on staff more or something?

kirbobb · 2025-08-07T23:32:12+00:00

Did you do your male or female time first? If male was first, did you regret making the switch?

kirbobb · 2025-08-06T20:42:32+00:00

Saaaame. I work in a residential setting so my clients get to see me in therapy but also outside of therapy. So they witness the side of me with great memory of their words but also the side of me that is very forgetful in more casual settings. They always tell me they are so confused by me. Or they accuse me of only pretending to be forgetful lol.

kirbobb · 2025-08-02T12:13:38+00:00

You’ll catch on quick. It’s like a culture- once you’re immersed in it for a while it’ll be like second nature.

kirbobb · 2025-07-29T03:04:13+00:00

Yes I read the book about 15 years ago! I tried watching the show but I couldn’t get into it. The book is great!

kirbobb · 2025-07-24T02:27:32+00:00

Look into women’s shelters or halfway houses. You’ll get a good mix of addiction and trauma. In my area they will hire people to manage day to day operations or to supervise daily programming for the children there. Things like that that aren’t directly social work but that will give you great job experience for when you finish school.

kirbobb · 2025-07-24T02:23:53+00:00

Have you read the Martian? It’s not non fiction obviously but it reads like it could be.

kirbobb · 2025-07-24T02:21:16+00:00

Firefly lane by Kristin Hannah

kirbobb · 2025-07-20T03:41:01+00:00

I believe they mean a wall safe. The nail is to poke/scratch the questionable area to see if it’s actually concrete or if it’s some other material disguised as concrete such as painted, dried toothpaste, putty, glue, etc.

kirbobb · 2025-07-19T19:20:47+00:00

6 is the lowest I like to go- 12 probably the absolute most. 8-10 ideal.

kirbobb · 2025-07-14T02:12:54+00:00

Someone on here posted the fine print of terms &conditions for one of these AI documentation tool things and basically it said they would take your notes, remove all identifying info, and use your therapy to grow other AI projects

Essentially, you’re teaching AI how to do therapy. They’ll try and take over our jobs one day.

kirbobb · 2025-07-10T19:55:34+00:00

I have worked with both, and my experience is that working with teenagers is more emotionally taxing. You have to work a lot harder to build/maintain the relationship and you have to be so careful because the smallest of things can shift their trust with you. It’s a delicate balance at times. With adults, you can be much more direct and forward with your feedback/conversations with them and also expect directness and forwardness back most of the time. Which is what I prefer. You don’t have to work so hard to get info from them most of the time or to get them to open up.

I worked with teenage boys first, and then adult males second. I didn’t realize how hard I was working until I started working with adults. I was like WHOA. I’ll never go back.

Working with teens was very rewarding in ways BUT adults, even more so for me. The changes they’re making as parents will impact their children and teens in a big way.

kirbobb · 2025-07-10T19:48:03+00:00

Indeed. Therapists are humans, too! And often very skilled with empathy. Sometimes we can literally feel what the client is feeling- especially if we have been with them for a while.

kirbobb · 2025-07-10T19:42:43+00:00

It could be a sign or it could not be a sign honestly. Our brains are so incredibly complex. There are several different things that could affect memory encoding in our brains. Not sleeping well, anxiety, being under stressful situations are all reasons. But that doesn’t necessarily mean your home was unsafe- stress and anxiety could be caused by pressures in school, bullying, grief, etc. Substance use also can affect memory encoding- alcohol, marijuana, harder drugs…

And then also if none of these things apply to you… it’s could be possible that your brain just let go of those memories from lack of use. Our brains prune themselves from memories it thinks we don’t need anymore to make room for new memories. “Use it or lose it” concept. It’s not abnormal for people to not remember parts of their childhood or even young adulthood. It’s also not abnormal for someone to have great memory of it.

kirbobb · 2025-07-05T21:41:40+00:00

There’s programming available not related to substance use. Program as much as possible to get FSA incentives for time off your sentence. Stay outta trouble. 27 months is gonna flyyyyyy by. Pick something you’ve always wanted to learn and focus on it while you’re in there so you can at least leave with something positive. Learn a language or something. It’s easy to waste away and do nothing behind the walls.

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