America, man, some days I just don’t know

So a follow up: tonight our normally chatty daughter was quiet, to the point of morose. Declares out of nowhere she needs to go to bed by 7 so she’ll “be better in school.” Suddenly lost all interest in going to minor league ballgame tonight, which she’d wanted to do forever.

That’s weird, we think, but she’s diligent and it’s her first week in new school, maybe this is her adjustment. But quickly escalated to urgent fixation, increasingly anxious and tense, she MUST get to bed before 7, NO ballgame for her, until...