By MELISSA WELLHAM
I don’t want to start a fight between the different kinds of posts on Mamamia, but I’ve got to say… I think I love Best and Worst even more than I love Open Post. Maybe because the categorical nature of Best and Worst appeals to my hidden, inner-librarian tendencies.
If you’re new to the game, then Best and Worst is the post each week where we can take 5 minutes out of your busy day to share the best and worst things that are happening in your life right now – and celebrate and commiserate along with other MM readers. I’ll start us off…
Best: Because I spend so much time reading news throughout the week, the highs and lows I remember are often made up of the most heartwarming – and conversely, most heartbreaking – stories I have read. My best this week was definitely the news about Labor’s Minister for Immigration Tony Burke releasing asylum seeker children from detention centres – a compassionate act which became his final statement as a Minister. If you missed that story, you can read about it here.
Worst: My worst was hearing reports of this story, about an 8-year-old child bride who died on the night of her wedding. It’s a truly shattering, tragic story – and a reminder of how lucky many of us are in comparison. If you’ve read the story and are wondering how you can make a difference to the lives of girls in developing nations, and help put an end to the gross humans rights violation that is child marriages, then you should consider learning more about CARE’s campaign and making a donation. They are a fabulous organisation that helps make a different to the lives of millions of women and girls every year.
OMM:
The continuation of MM’s Body Positive project – did you participate this week? You can see even more fabulous post-baby bodies in the post here.
And now over to you – what have been the best and worst of YOUR week? x
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Best - Having some time off from work to finally spend some quality time with my kids. Have been baking, reading with them and having fun which I haven't been able to do since starting the new job. Also realising I have a great guy in my life who is really into me and figuring I need to deal with my trust issues so that I can let him in. Im afraid of being hurt.
Worst - Work... My roster sucks (when I was hired I told them I only wanted 25hrs) and I keep asking about the hours and pay etc and yet I just keep getting fobbed off. The crazy hours Im about to start doing is too many, I hate it and the kids hate it. It means a lot of pressure on my mum to fill the gap especially coming up to school holidays. I dont know what I'd do without my mum!
Worst: Really struggling with our 6yo. He has anxiety issues and has been struggling with certain tasks/lessons at school. Instead of trying to fix a mistake or asking for help he just stubbornly shuts down, sits under tables or flees the room. It can take literally hours to encourage him back into the classroom, and he doesn't respond to any kind of interaction whether it be kind, caring, cranky etc. Encouragement, consequence, discipline, ignoring it - nothing works. The teacher and principal are at their wits' end and so are we. Psych has ruled out anything other than anxiety, and our son knows before/after that he needs to use tools to calm down etc but says when he gets upset he just forgets it all and can't think. I really don't know how to help him. Any suggestions are most welcome.
Best: The majority of the time our son is a lovely, kind, funny, clever, loving little guy. He has come a long way in the last few years with his anxiety for which I am extremely proud of him. We are very lucky to have him in our lives.