Fantastic metaphor! I’m going to use this with my 13 year old (the one who I gave their first driving lesson to this fall in our own white Volvo). They are all about driving and this might just click! For the fifteen year old too!
This metaphor hits so hard I started crying (insert dramatic eyeroll emoji). I know I do this for myself instinctually - make sure I'm ready to go in the morning for work, lay out my running clothes, check my work calendar, text the sitter with any changes in the next day's schedule...but I realize that its all in service of making sure I have bandwidth to roll my family's cars up the hills, turn them around and get them going in the moring. With a similar family dynamic (teens and ADHD), uphill is the name of the game right now.
Is there anyone under a certain age who knows what you’re talking about?
In college when I had a standard VW Bug, I revelled in parking downhill, because I loved the downhill roll into second gear, and since I was on a college salary, I rarely thought to check my battery. 😬
I admit that I hesitated before making this reference! Luckily, this particular 16-year-old, having driven tractors and such, knew exactly what I was talking about :-)
Thanks to a certain Acura Legend I had the privilege of learning on, I can feel this downhill roll in my bones as well ♡
Fantastic metaphor! I’m going to use this with my 13 year old (the one who I gave their first driving lesson to this fall in our own white Volvo). They are all about driving and this might just click! For the fifteen year old too!
This metaphor hits so hard I started crying (insert dramatic eyeroll emoji). I know I do this for myself instinctually - make sure I'm ready to go in the morning for work, lay out my running clothes, check my work calendar, text the sitter with any changes in the next day's schedule...but I realize that its all in service of making sure I have bandwidth to roll my family's cars up the hills, turn them around and get them going in the moring. With a similar family dynamic (teens and ADHD), uphill is the name of the game right now.
Yes! My latest internal refrain is "stop taking hits from MY prefrontal cortex!"
Is there anyone under a certain age who knows what you’re talking about?
In college when I had a standard VW Bug, I revelled in parking downhill, because I loved the downhill roll into second gear, and since I was on a college salary, I rarely thought to check my battery. 😬
I admit that I hesitated before making this reference! Luckily, this particular 16-year-old, having driven tractors and such, knew exactly what I was talking about :-)
Thanks to a certain Acura Legend I had the privilege of learning on, I can feel this downhill roll in my bones as well ♡