It's that time.

lock and load.

The Michael Vary Show is on the air.

When school

when school's starting back, whether you have a public or private school child

or grandchild. My grandparents want to help with the kids and you want to help them succeed.

Maybe they're off to college.

Whatever that may be, I want to spend just a few minutes

talking about

maybe you can't hire a tutor

but the best tutor is the parent

in the cases for Derek it's usually the fact that the parents are traveling with work or hyper,

hyper engaged in their business and they still want the best for their kids when they get

home. The old days when I grew up you went to school, came home, did your homework,

then you went out to play or did your athletics and you went on. That has changed. I tell my kids all the time.

School, I was top of my class. I studied hard. I performed well. But my school was not 10% as difficult as your school is today. Not even

nothing like it. It's much harder today, much more competitive as well.

Derek more is our guest. Derek, let's take a couple minutes and

drill down for a parent that you have watched, you come into the home, you've

come into our home for years, You go into the home and you watch kids who succeed and you have helped them thrive.

Let's talk about a handful of things in five minutes or so that every parent can do to increase

by some measure the success of their kid from when they wake up to when they go to bed,

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