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What a crazy year and what a crazy return to the school year we've had and regardless of however

it's worked out for you in your school district or in your home, you're probably spending a lot more time with your kids and their

school work. I'm John Fuller along with Danny Werta who leads our parenting

department here at Focus and Danny there are parents of teens who are

perhaps worried you know what my kids are going to fall behind in significant ways

this fall because of what's going on so how do they encourage their children to be diligent and how do they avoid

being a helicopter parent? Boy, it's a tricky time, John, for parents at this time. I mean, springtime was so difficult for parents as they were trying to

navigate the fact that that school districts weren't even prepared for this and so

kids did fall behind. In the fall I think many schools are much more prepared and have put some structures in place.

And so for parents, it's to familiarize yourself with what's going on the school,

develop a structure and a schedule for your home, some systems for your home.

And for some parents, that's a very natural thing.

And for some parents, it's not.

And from that, you can allow some natural consequences to take take place if your child gets a bad

grade it's okay if they fall behind no no no it's not okay Danny there's so much

stress and it feels like the current I you know I'm smiling that's right but it does feel like the current

situation has just made stress even greater and they have to do even better as a student

because golly I'm not sure what's going to happen in the future.

What a great opportunity for kids to learn responsibility, right?

And so if we can help change the narrative to that,

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