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Welcome to the OG Therapy.

Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of OG Therapy.

And today's episode is going to focus on a specific thing this time of year that

some of you parents may come across.

Oh, a stressful situation may come across.

I don't know if you guys knew this, but it's almost back to school.

Now, even back to school, even back to school shopping can be one of those experiences that

can be really good or really bad i will

just leave it at this i may or may not have got one of my worst public but weapons during a back

to school shopping situation at a shopping at a surf shop in my hometown san yag when i told my mom

i did not like anything she was picking

out for me put this way back in those days people to report to dcfs but if the owner of the shop

was back in two thousand twenty three he might had to report my mom for abuse because she uh was

funny that i'm laughing about it now wasn't funny what happened so back to the little shopping can

cause issues maybe we'll do an episode just on that um but there's a lot of stress right so kids are going back to the little shopping can cause issues. Maybe we'll do an episode just on that.

But there's a lot of stress, right? So kids are going back to school. There's a lot of stuff going on. But one thing that keeps on coming up year after year and seems like it doesn't get better

every year. It's probably getting worse is the thing where parents will come and tell me guys,

they'll say, hey, listen, my kid is really nervous, really anxious

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