![]() While these activities may provide fleeting relief, they won’t cure burnout and can actually make you feel worse. Many comfort themselves during stressful times by eating junk food or binge-watching TV. Another benefit is they’ll most likely be flattered you consider them close enough to talk to about such personal matters. They may not be able to solve any burnout issues, but it provides an opportunity for you unburden yourself. This confidant could be a close friend, relative, or partner. This could be as simple as taking a new route to work or asking for different responsibilities. If it does, alter it to create some excitement and fresh challenges. Unless you’re working on an assembly line, your work should not feel like a routine. If you believe in either of these scenarios, it’s definitely time to take a vacation! Many honestly believe that taking a vacation is impossible…because either the work will still be there when you return or rose, the work will get done and you’re not needed. “Time to get away?” However, sometimes it’s not really that funny and a good vacation is what you need. Here’s a few tips to overcome any feeling of burn out or simply remind you of the priorities in your life. Perhaps it has nothing to do with the pandemic and you feel burned out from heavy workloads, deadline pressures, or a lack of work/life balance. While many “essential workers” felt overburdened, employees working from home missed the human interaction. Teachers should keep in mind that Black students are less likely to read for pleasure it shouldn’t be any surprise that many school-assigned books, emphasizing the roles of white people, aren’t exactly a literary turn-on for them.The pandemic has taken its toll on many businesspeople over the past two years. When we spoon-feed books to kids, we deprive them of the experience of realizing there’s a bigger world of books out there for them to explore. The class could make group choices or students could pick from a menu of options instead of being assigned a single book. Giving older students more choices in what they read for class would help encourage pleasure reading too, while still requiring those books to have some rigor. ![]() Instead of telling parents all about the grading rubrics in use, back-to-school nights should make reading for pleasure one of the major themes pushed home to parents, at all grade levels. Robust funding of libraries, dedicated specifically to public outreach, children’s book sections and fun, free activities for families would help. Parents play a key role in this, but many may not realize how important it is to expose their kids to books, magazines and the like. As a child, my son used to finish his reading for school and then sigh with pleasure, saying, “Now I can read.” ![]() Reading for pleasure isn’t the same as assigned reading because kids need to be able to relax with the reading material of their choice, according to Kids Read Now. The reliance on social media as a reading outlet instead of more authoritative resources is also helping to fuel beliefs among some people in anti-scientific shibboleths like vaccines causing autism or no evidence that masks help prevent the spread of COVID-19. The second, more important part is learning to love what we find between the covers. Learning how those mysterious black squiggles on the page translate to words and sentences is only the first part of reading. We expand our horizons every time we enter deeply personal or imagined worlds that may change our outlook on life, teach us how to grow our own vegetables, or, like Hermione, offer the secrets to save the world. The world of the written word, whether it’s found in a leather-bound novel or the digital version of a newspaper, is a rich and wondrous place that makes almost all things possible. As a book lover and writer, my emotional response is that nonreaders are missing out on greater experiences than social media can give them. Obviously, the research on the benefits of a reading hobby show otherwise. ![]() ![]() So if kids are reading social media posts, isn’t that just a modern form of reading for pleasure? And if they’re hitting the schoolbooks, isn’t that giving them more than enough exposure to the written word? ![]()
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