Amanda Morin
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first heard Aug 2016
last heard Jul 2025
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And they may even have to do things like figuring out how to get to and from their locker between classes.
And as an aside, this is really interesting because I could never figure out how to do a combination lock ever, like in my entire career of being in school, ever.
I think I left my locker open and it was really insecure, but I just couldn't do it.
And so when Anderson published this video and cheat sheet about how to do a combination lock, I just about cried with joy because I could give it to my son instead of having to figure out how to teach him how to do it.
That makes me feel a lot better,
I'm not alone with this sort of our mantra here, right?
Like everybody's mantra.
Yes.
And I think that the other thing that I would point out is that this is that time when we start asking kids to be more independent and take charge of their own learning.
And not all kids are organized and emotionally ready to do that.
And that can cause a lot of stress.
So it's daunting to have to self-advocate in a time of your life when you really want to draw as little attention to yourself as possible.
And those are things that I think we can help set kids up for success in really subtle ways.
But I think it's worth noting that your child's trajectory may be different.
So when everybody's saying, well, hey, this is when everybody's more independent.
It's okay to say my child's not ready to be as independent, but I'm going to set them up to be as independent as I can set them up to be.
Absolutely, absolutely.
And I think that that it's a way
For us as parents to sort of let go of those expectations a little bit too, to be able to say, I know who my child is and I'm going to support who my child is as opposed to who people think my child should be.
For me, that's been something that's been hard to do.
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