Charlie Chaplin said, “We think too much and feel too little.” but we’re definitely living the flip side around here.

Most days T-man and Bear seem like a bundle of nerve endings, crackling with energy and often lashing out with little (or big) lightning bolts.  Sometimes the source of friction is obvious – a teacher committed the cardinal sin of being unfair, a friend snubbed them at lunch, or there was bedlam on the bus ride home.  Those are the easy days, though.  The days when there’s an identifiable problem to break down and discuss.

It’s the days when nothing feels right for no particular reason that give us fits.  Tomorrow’s Forever Family talks about what we do when the feelings stand alone.

Feelings are a tough thing to wrangle.

Dealing with disappointment or frustration is a valuable life skill, one that’s hard enough to model when you’ve got a tangible source for the reaction.  Not many tweens take to sitting with uncomfortable feelings when their sense of fairness has been turned upside down.  But trying to make sense of an ambiguous icky feeling when it doesn’t seem to come from anything in particular?

That often sends us talking in circles around here.