Do not confuse this with treatment or mental health advice or direction.

Nothing on this podcast is made to supplement or supersede the relationship and direction of your mental health caretakers.

Although David Koslowski is a licensed marriage and family therapist, he is not functioning as a certified mental health professional in this environment.

And same applies to any professional who may appear on the light, the fight, podcast.

It's fun to be able to just have the opportunity to now throw a couple of questions at you.

These came from the audience.

So I think we should just get started.

So our daughter is a senior in high school, is failing classes, and not taking initiative to be ready to leave home after graduation.

We feel we've tried everything, counselors letting her fail, lording over her.

We need help to know how to help her feel motivated to finish high school and leave

home and adult. Help. Well, I'll give a quick disclaimer for all the questions because I actually

do this for a living. I'm not like a, I'm a licensed professional, so I have to be very cautious that I can

give you guys suggestions and ideas, but because I don't know

the full background and this isn't an Instagram post, I can't be like, oh, you just need to do this.

Okay, it's not that simple. However, I will answer it honestly. If your child's under 18 years old,

which makes a big difference legally, and if this is, I'm going to say extreme, so we're going to say a

ghost pepper situation, meaning really bad situation, because that question could be a lot worse

than we realize it is, or it could just be kind of like, it's bad, but not like there's suicide,

not like there's stuff like that going on. So if they're under 18 years old, you still have

the option

of higher levels of care. You still have the legal right, and I'm not suggesting you do this,

but you still have the legal right. Let's say your child has struggled with anxiety, depression,

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