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Hello, friends, the school year is here, and with it often comes pressure.

Today's episode originally broadcast in January 2019, and it has been in the Locked Archives. I thought it would be a good idea to bring this conversation back to the surface as we enter into this new school year. And it's so interesting because the original conversation was when Laurel was a freshman. She is now moving into her senior year of college, where she has

ambitious goals and dreams following graduation, and I have very much been cheering her on and

supporting her how I can, while also trying to communicate that if her plans do not work out for

some reason, that has got to be okay okay too. There is so much in this conversation

with me and Asha, and in addition to preliminary discussion on the challenges we bring in our own

histories, as well as the very real struggle between encouraging our kids and not micromanaging,

we share seven recommendations for navigating the challenging school achievement pressure waters.

Let's get right to it.

I'm really glad we're talking about this today because we're talking about something that I really, really care about.

And that is school and specifically school stress and all of the pressure around school achievement.

So this is really on my mind because my daughter just finished her semester and midterm

finals.

And it was just unbelievably stressful.

And okay, like tests are always stressful and that is totally fine. But I am just really seeing a level of grade anxiety and an anxiety about school achievement, not just with my daughter, but with other, you know, other students, her friends, even my son in college. I'm just seeing this level of anxiety that goes beyond

the usual school stress. And I just feel like kids are struggling, parents are struggling,

and I thought we could just have a conversation about it, share some observations,

some things that we're doing to handle it. I just thought it would be a good time to talk about

that. Yeah, I'm so glad that you

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