Anxiety and Timing

Last night, I'm sitting on the coach. Brandon is in bed. Lauren is in the shower. I'm just sitting and thinking. I had just finished reading the 18 page draft report, not counting the 3 graphs, from the psychologist in charge of Lauren's retest. Pretty much what we talked about, just more in depth. I found the charts interesting. I'm visual like Brandon. The one thing that really caught my eye was the difference between what I saw and the teacher saw. The teacher this year is pretty good. I find her to be observant. The thing is I rated Lauren's anxiety level much higher than the teacher. So now the questions.

Is she really that much more emotional at home? Why?

Am I seeing something that's not there?

Am I exaggerating what I see?

At that point Lauren came around the corner into the living room. Her face is red and she's crying. I ask what's wrong and she comes to sit by me. She then proceeds to tell me that someone moved the bottles around in the shower. Because of this, she put body wash in her hair. To her, this is a major disaster. I put my hand in her hair and feel that some is still there. I tell her it's alright and we go up to rinse her hair and put the conditioner she meant to put in her hair in and then rinse again. She finally calms down after much reassuring that's it's not a big deal and that I have done the same thing too. After I get her in bed I came back down. I looked at the report on the table and start to laugh. Yeah, I guess I do see more than the teacher. I have her when she's tired. I have her for more of the things that personally affect her. Although I felt bad for Lauren, it was just what I needed to relieve my doubts.