Total Education Show Parent Experts Ask Questions

Adam the Former Teacher and Neil Haley The Total Tutor will answering questions from parent experts. The following parent experts will call the show: Margaret Briem author of The Parent Plan, Dr Stuart Bramhall, Dr. Susan Glaser author of Who's the Boss, and Dr. Stephen Guffanti ADHD Expert. Here are the questions: My teen’s grades are slipping and he/she has a new group of friends, that were met through school and school activities, should I be concerned, or since the school activities are supervised can I be reassured that everything is okay? will be around separation and first days at school. You have a 7 year old children who refuses to sleep in his own bed. No matter what the parents do, he insists on sleeping in their bed. “Feeling very frustrated with the whole school/daughter (8 yrs old) thing. My Olivia is a free spirit with tons of energy. She's spunky, artistic, and spontaneous, sweet and full of love. Everything I love about her! The school sees disruptive, impulsive (the bad kind), emotional, and talkative. She loved school up until this year (the dreaded 3rd grade). She's just not feeling the love, and thinks her teachers hate her. It's a real shame when a teacher can make a child feel this way. I'm tired of yelling and crying. I yell when she gets in trouble. Then cry because I yelled, and I know it's not her fault. She has been on Focalin XR 10mg for a few years now, and it's just not working anymore. I feel like this is all my fault, because I have become so frustrated with myself, her, the teachers and the school with their generic answers, and lack of training and follow through. Meaning when we all come up with a positive reinforcement plan, they don't follow through, or use it to some extent, but also use the negative, so she still comes home with an F in conduct every week. It kind of defeats the purpose of the whole "positive reinforcement" chart. They just don't seem to want to put in the effort.