Advice needed. in the start of the next part... Autumn 2014.

Teachers and parents. Tally has been asked to run in a cross country tournament for her school. This sounds like fabulous news unless you know my daughter. She’s gone into foetal mode. She can’t bear the stress of not knowing what will happen, of not knowing if she will win or not. She has already decided, in a negative way, that someone will run much faster than her because she doesn’t know them.

Getting her to her climbing lesson was tough and she loves climbing but this worry is all encompassing so nothing else is registering.

I phoned the school and have left a message to say that I would like to talk to one of the teachers who will be accompanying them to be able to make things clearer.

As a parent how should I approach this with the teacher and with tally herself?

She’s a bloody fast runner but is terrified of losing!