TPP 270: Support for Smart But Struggling Students, with Jeannine Jannot
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is a “disintegrating student” and why do bright kids fall apart?
So there's this point where some really bright students, because they don't have a lot of strategies and skills because they haven't needed them, because they're very bright. They hit a wall where there's enough rigor and enough challenge and, you know, more responsibilities as they get older. And they don't have the skills and strategies to support this kind of new challenge that they're having to face and they completely fall apart.
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Rieber. In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Janine Janot, an academic coach and the author of the book, The Disintegrating Student: Struggling But Smart, Falling Apart, and How to Turn It Around. Janine has over 25 years of experience working with children, teens, and young adults in both public and private school settings. She began teaching college psychology courses in 2010, and in 2014, she founded the Balanced Student, which helps students increase academic productivity while emphasizing physical and mental wellness.
I wanted to bring Janine onto the show after a friend shared some useful executive function tools from her book and further explore this idea of the disintegrating student, which Janine describes as bright, successful students who suddenly hit a wall with falling grades, scattered work, and emotional upheaval. So in this episode, we explore that especially through the lens of middle school and high school students. Together, we dig into the importance of mindset for teens, discover what the rigor tipping point looks like, and talk about whether or not procrastination is a viable strategy. Janine also shares the things we as parents and caregivers may do with the best of intentions that might be having the opposite effect on our kiddos, as well as strategies that can help students who are disintegrating.
Lastly, I want to give a quick shout out to Aaron Dragoshan, a new supporter of the podcast. Thank you so much for joining my Patreon campaign and helping me cover the costs of producing this show. If you get a lot out of this podcast and want to join Aaron in supporting it, you can sign up with Patreon to make a small monthly contribution. To learn more, visit patreon.com slash tiltparenting. And now here is my conversation with Doctor Janine Genot. Hey Janine, welcome to the podcast. Hi, Debbie. Thanks for having me. I'm looking forward to discussing your book, which I just read yesterday and really w enjoyed it, got a lot out of it, have already implemented some strategies. Um, but it's I feel like it's a great conversation for this show for my listeners.
But before we get into talking about the disintegrating student, can you just take a few minutes? I've already read your formal bio, but just tell us a little bit about who you are in your own.
So I my background is in school psychology and child developmental psych psychology. And I have three kids, um, my youngest of which is eighteen and just went off to college. And Why I ended up writing a book is because at some point it was about ten years ago. My youngest was in elementary school. А май мидл кід возмідлсько, майосвозин хай школ анастатій коледж. And I had this incredible bird's eye view of education and what what's happening with our children. And it wasn't um Yeah, I was I was very shaken by what I saw and about the anxiety and the mental health issues coming out of it. So Um w I ended up working with my college students and figuring out they really they were just overwhelmed, they didn't have a lot of skills, and I worked on trying to help them, you know, figure
out this new training. You know, they're independent now and they needed some help. So I started coaching. So I do academic and student and parent coaching through the Balanced Student. And when I started doing that coaching, I started seeing these students I wasn't expecting to see.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is a “disintegrating student” and why do bright kids fall apart?
0:00–6:34
2
When does the rigor tipping point typically occur for middle and high schoolers?
6:34–12:01
3
How does mindset (fixed vs. growth) influence the disintegration process?
12:01–16:16
4
What is the spotlight effect and how does it affect teen self‑perception?
16:16–22:08
5
How can parents unintentionally contribute to a child’s disintegration?
22:08–26:26
6
What practical strategies help students build executive‑function skills like time management?
26:26–31:15
7
How can the master calendar and pocket schedule system improve organization?
31:15–36:13
8
Why is self‑care for parents essential to supporting struggling but smart students?
36:13–40:57
Speakers
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