Edel Coffey: Little reminders everywhere of the importance of attitude adjustment
Edel Coffey; a sometimes unintentional optimist. Photo: Ray Ryan
Monday is always an interesting day at the school gates. It’s the beginning of a new week, and everyone is re-learning the skills of an old routine as if they were doing it for the very first time. There is an audible denouement as the bell rings, the yard empties, and the doors close on our children for the next five hours.
We adults shuffle away from the gates, a bitter-sweet leave-taking, putting on our various personas required for the next shift, the part of the day where we activate our professional selves and try to make it all happen within the school timetable, so that we can be focused and present parents by the time we return to the school gates to retrieve our children.
