Dear Callen,
This weekend was pretty uneventful, but I had fun anyway. Friday night we skipped the Jazz game since I was pretty tired and you had a long day at school. Your new medicine hasn’t had the impact that we had hoped for. I’ve seen some changes in you at home, but your behavior in school hasn’t seen an improvement. I can’t tell if the learned behavior and bad habits at school are just continuing, or if the medicine needs to change. I have a meeting with the school on Tuesday to try to figure some things out. Since I see improvement at home we are going to increase your dosage tomorrow. Hopefully, this will do the job, but if not we’ll have to try something else. I know it’s not going to be easy for you if we need to swap treatment plans, but I appreciate your willingness to try things. It’s all about finding the right balance that works for you.
Finding balance in life is important, and something we both could do better. This weekend is a great example. Friday night we watched the basketball game together and then Daddy had more beers than needed. Saturday night we had family movie night, and you ate too much M&Ms and popcorn and had to go to bed early.
The idea of balance is something that I’ve actually been working on recently. I’m trying to find the right mix for both of us. One thing I’ve tried to focus on is the amount of time I spend working. I’ve always been someone that puts in the additional hours and took work home, but I’ve tried to limit the time I work, at least when you’re awake, and instead focus on spending more time together. That has also led to you spending too much time watching videos on your tablet, and some of them I don’t think are appropriate for your age. We need to dial back the screen time and focus on other things, like our reading. Also, while I love our talks, I can’t listen to another 20-minute long speech about Minecraft.
We’ll just have to keep trying to find the right balance for us in everything we do.
Love,
Daddy