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Welcome to the OG Therapy.

Hey, everybody.

Welcome to another episode of OG Therapy and I am your host as always David.

And I'm about to share with you something that I helped the client with just a couple weeks ago.

In fact, about a week and a half ago.

And the reason why I'm to share this with you is because I'm pretty sure this is on a lot of parents minds and it has to do with the end of the quarter and grades so here we go parent came

me and I've known this parent for a while but they came me saying hey uh grades aren't

going as good as we'd planned them to go and I I said, interesting. So we've been kind of putting

this on the to-do list for a while because there's some other things that had to happen with

their teenager first. But now at those things, we've met those goals, we've hit those benchmarks.

Now we're focusing on things about like, like, you know, consistency with school, attendance,

grades, so on and so forth.

So this quarter, halfway through the quarter, the parent was like, hey, listen, can

we start your parenting partnership agreement?

I said, well, I go, I think we need to wait a little bit longer.

And they said, well, why?

I said, because I don't think your teenager right now really puts a very high value on grades.

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