The Dangers of Emotional Dumping
Photo by Daan Mooij on Unsplash I just heard this story about a teacher who had been told that their student's parent had died and it pissed me off. This teacher was told by their student about this parent's passing. It was sudden and tragic. This teacher felt so saddened and overwhelmed that when the student was out of the room, told her entire class about it. This pissed me off for two reasons: 1) When ANY person (child or adult) tells you something as heavy and devastating as a parent dying, the LAST POSSIBLE THING you should do is tell an entire room of youth about a story that isn't yours. 2) The fact that an educator is having such a difficulty with emotionally heavy information suggests to me that this educator (and many like them) is feeling overwhelmed and unsupported, thus making grave errors such as this one. So now I feel that it is important to talk briefly about Emotional Dumping . Many of you are already emotionally-savvy enough to k...
