With learning back in full swing this week, our students have proven to us once again what a resilient bunch we have here at OLSCC. Children have a wonderful capacity to respond to the curve balls that life throws at us all – if only we let them. A parent’s first instinct is often to do all they can to smooth out life’s bumps for our children. Those bumps come in many forms. As students transition back to school life, they have experienced the busyness of the classroom that may have become a distant memory. Coupled with this, there has been a flurry of activity as teachers work to establish the next steps in the learning journey for each individual student in their care. Add this to reconnecting to the normal routines of any school day – have I packed my lunchbox? Waterbottle? Computer? Did I do my homework on time? Am I wearing my uniform correctly? Will I play soccer at lunch? Go to the library? 

Each of these presents as challenges of varying degrees of severity to different students. Our goal at OLSCC is to have our students embrace these challenges and learn to thrive on them in order to work out “what to do when I don’t know what to do”! It is essential to develop these skills in the early years to succeed later in their schooling and beyond, in life. To do this, we must accept that sometimes our child needs to experience “being stuck” and not race in to rescue them. I have had many conversations with parents about this during the week. I encourage you to be courageous for your child – it will help to build skills to know that the next time they face a similar challenge, they have the strategies necessary to get through it. Your child will thank you for it later.