| Today we are truly honored to welcome a rather
unusual guest presenter...whose name I can't remember.
Senora Maria Montalvo.
Ah, yes! Welcome to hpathy, Senora Montalvo; and you are from...
Barcelona.
Barcelona! That's right, I remember now, but you look so familiar!
Dollink, all of zee beautiful women
from Spain look familiar!
I'm sure they do, but, you know, it's very unusual for us to have
such an exotic guest here at hpathy; we did have someone from Norway
once but, we haven't seen her since that embarrassing moat mishap;
but, if you're as beautiful as you say you are, why are you covering
your face with a veil?
Zee veil, it is an ancient Mediterranean
tradeeeeeetion. How's my accent?
KELLY!!!!!
Shhhh!!!!! I'm in disguise, I didn't
want anyone to follow me here!
Like who, Mister Montalvo?
Elaine, this is a very unusual case!
I'll say it is!
In fact, it's top secret! No one
can know it's about my daughter, no one can know it's about soccer,
and no one can know because the entire soccer team reads the ezine!
You mean it's like the Daily News of Little League Soccer?
Exactly! And the thing is, everything
that's wrong with "Baby Maria Montalvo"...
Excuse me, you named your daughter after you?
Yes, Maria Montalvo, Jr. Is there
anything wrong with that?
No, it's a beautiful name, sort of. Were you just saying something?
Yes, Top Secret!
What is top secret?
It's the coach, Elaine; Baby Maria
is not happy with the coach!
Ohhhhhhhh......
She says he pushes her too hard,
and tells her she's lazy....
And you're afraid that if this gets back to him, he'll push her
even harder!
Exactly!
Kelly, not to worry. Thanks to my crack team of editors, this whole
conversation will be edited out of the ezine before it hits the
stands!
What a relief!
In fact, we will so disguise your daughter that no one will have
the slightest idea who or what this case is about!
Well, I feel so much better now.
You see? All that worrying for nothing.
OK, here it goes! My 13 year old
daughter, "Baby Maria Anita Sofia Jesusa Montalvo"...
Junior...
has been completely out of control!
I hate it when that happens!
Here's the scenario: Baby Maria is
becoming increasingly nervous before games. She complains that her
stomach "hurts", is very snappish and irritable prior
to the game, wrings her hands and is visibly nervous.
Her nervousness has started to effect
the quality of her play. She's slower to respond, hesitates and
seems sluggish- even after warming up prior to the start of the
game. Most of these physical symptoms improve after she becomes
involved in the game and she usually plays well after a short while.
The worst symptom is that she has
begun to be somewhat disrespectful to her coach. She's headstrong
to begin with but will now sometimes ignore the coach when given
instruction from the sideline. She will engage in conversation to
defend a "move" she made when criticized- which by the
way, she cannot tolerate! The more he yells "run" the
slower she walks! Also, she's had several emotional "outbursts"
on the field...
That would be, the "hockey" field, right?
Yes, Hockey, that's the ticket!
You were saying?
She has emotional outbursts, screeching
at other players to "help" her.
Things were getting worse quickly and I was actually thinking that
this whole "hockey" thing was too much for my daughter
not to mention her family!
Luckily, my homeopath...
...moi...
...yes, vous, recommended ____________30C.
I gave two doses before the next game and noticed that she was less
nervous prior to the start of the game, played well and was a little
less irritable with her coach. I felt very hopeful!
Several days later she had another
game. Elaine suggested we go to a 200c, which I gave and saw some
definite improvement in the pre game nervousness, disobedience and
quality of play. I thought, "We are really on to something
here!"
After this game a few strange things
happened: my daughter became very concerned for her younger brother
as we watched his game. It was a very physical game and she was
worried he would get hurt. She burst into tears in the car on the
way home saying, "I don't know why I'm crying, mom!" and
then several minutes later began playing "car games" with
her brother for the remainder of the drive home! This was the first
peaceful car trip in a long time! All of these things are very unusual
for her. She has had a love/hate relationship with her brother and
for the most part "tolerates" him. Hearing them play together
(as they did when they were young) was amazing!
The next day I gave my daughter nothing
before the game as she didn't need it! She played hard, listened
to her coach and had no outbursts on the field. She even commented
that she felt "better and more calm."
OK, if you know what the remedy is...
Elaine, I'm not finished!
You mean there's a Part-2?
Yes! "Maria" came home
from school recently really crabby, whiny, etc.... flippant and
bratty too. I thought about giving the remedy again but there was
no nervousness involved.
At practice she wasn't very cooperative
and said the coach was really "irritating" her. Later
the entire team ran to an ice cream store (maybe 2 miles) and "Maria"
was quietly very argumentative, as in, "No, i don't wannnnnt
that, i want this! Why can't I have that?" Lots of eye rolling,
etc.
I was at my limit with this behavior
and told her to go to her room when we got home and stay there.
I told her she was acting like a 3 year old. "You're grounded
with no TV," I said. She had a little more homework but I said
she'd have to finish it in the morning. Well this made her hysterical!
Screaming, crying - the works!
She said she wanted "to die!"
(this is new).
I gave her the same remedy, 200c.
She'd been so quiet in her room that
I went in to check on her. She was asleep! I gave her a kiss; she
woke up and said, "Mom, whatever you gave me worked! It calmed
me down right away. I'm sorry." She rolled over and went back
to sleep.
******
One week later:
Here's a storybook ending if there
ever was one: Maria tried out for a better team; she competed against
44 girls for 16 open spots and she got one of them! This is the
"A" team at another club! Hooray!
You've lifted the ban on TV, haven't you?
________________________________________________________
If anyone knows the remedy, please
write to me at LEWRA@aol.com
and the answer will be in next month's ezine. |