#An after school counselor

[spikeisawesome456]

I graduated from grad school with my masters in educational counseling and my credential to (hopefully) become a counselor in a K-12 school. I also went to Japan with my older brother to celebrate said graduation. :-)

hey honest question, did anybody have GOOD stuff happen to them in 2024? cause it was really bad for me and for most people i know, so it would be nice to hear about anything that's been going WELL for any of you. even if it's small stuff. just to know there's light out there.

[angered-box]

man ur so lucky that ur uni offers language classes. we have to take them from the uni across the street if we wanna take em >.> the only languages my uni teaches is programming languages :P

i want to get better at jp but i am So bad at studying >.>

wah kinda but not rlly lucky? i wanted to take mandarin due to the fact i took two semesters in hs but they don't have it so jp was my next bet since i didn't want to learn the other few they offer really ^^;

also idk if this will sound weird but if you want to we could study sometime together ^-^

[vulpinesaint]

the difference that offering a child kindness and compassion can make... one of the kiddos was crying the other morning missing her mom. Sobbing crying. and i talked to her and she wasn't able to say very much from crying so hard but confirmed that she knew her mom was going to be back and it was going to be a good day and it was going to be alright but she was just inconsolable. and we did some good breaths together but she just couldn't get her breathing under control. so for like ten minutes i just had her drink some water and gave her a hug and sat with her while she cried until we were going off to the next activity and she had to go with different counselors. and by then she'd calmed down a little but was still sniffling and obviously upset but the important part is that even though i didn't even get her to stop crying anytime i saw that little girl the rest of that day and now throughout the rest of the Week after just sitting with her and offering some compassion i see her notice me as she goes by and she always looks right at me and smiles and gives me a little wave when i say hi. like we haven't had any other conversations since then but i can see the way that she recognizes me now. i'm not her favorite counselor i haven't spent more than twenty minutes with her tops but that little girl takes the time to seek out my acknowledgement cause i showed that i care about her.... y'know... cause i was gentle with her and that meant something to her... all to say. it doesn't matter if you have extended interactions with kids. it really doesn't. small things can make such a huge impact on children and i really sincerely think it's so important to show them kindness... help them up when they fall. give them a hug. sit with them while they cry. cause even if it doesn't Fix things even if you don't solve the problem or do anything really materially Helpful you will have shown that child that people care about them. and they notice... they remember... they do...

[lizard-dumbass]

Headcanon: Raine is a councelor at the university of wild magic!

[transgender-catboy]

up too late thinking about my past

yuck

[bellswlw]

i look so cute today like HOWWW am i not someone’s girlfriend?? wtf is this seriously it’s not FAIR.

[pillowenvelopchair]

Absolutely fucking stupid that my schools suicide prevention protocol is to basically to put someone in house arrest until a professional can write and “prove” that theyre okay so that theyre sure that they can let a student back in. Yeah. Sure. Just force someone to be in the house where they are even MORE at danger when there are literal sharp objects makes it easier to do it

[doctorcurdlejr]

Going through a school shooting is obviously very traumatic but also it's a little bit embarrassing like okay certified American moment...

[w3ndytheraccoon]

Me: I’m sorry I made jokes like that, but I struggle with these issues amd it’s the only way I know how to cope with them and I don’t know any alternative that won’t be more harmful than this-

The counselor, deadass: But it’s not funny. These are real problems people struggles with and you’re making jokes about it. It doesn’t matter if it’s how you cope, it’s unacceptable.

Me: Bitch what.

[an-adhd-infested-nerd]

I watched Chris Fleming’s special on Peacock and my takeaway is that with a budget is somehow more surreal and fever dream then normal. 1000000000/10, highly recommend

[thatdemonbee]

Teehee I'm actually alive just had a rough year and nearly got sent to a mental hospital

[chaoswillcalmusdown]

operation "how much estrogen leeway do we have" has commenced and it's only been 2 days but i'm so frustrated my muscles are still acting like they've been through a marathon

[rosesradio]

i think my university fucking bit me wtf

[navysealt4t]

my school district has like a student ran instagram page that's supposed to like give us non biased info about everything happening . and they just did a post about all the board representatives. and ughhhh. every single person on that god damn board is dedicated to parental rights in education (which basically just means parents controlling everything their kid learns) and being very anti trans and very conservative which is. so fucking fun. smiley face.

[kerosene-saint]

so many things happening in my life in the next couple months and it feels like my life is turning around compared to how I felt this time last year which was complete and utter dread and burn out in every sense of the word

[iknowwhereyousleepatnight]

it’s contemplating if i should change my major even though i’m graduating in december hours….. again