TPP 270a: 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 the Disintegrating Student and why do high‑performing kids fall apart?
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Hey there, it's Debbie. For the month of November, I'll be sharing some of my favorite past episodes all about executive functioning, the set of skills that help our kids plan, organize, regulate, and follow through. Every Friday, you'll find an episode in your feed exploring topics like motivation, time management, flexibility, and scaffolding. If your child's executive function challenges have been showing up more lately, these conversations will give you some fresh insights and practical tools to help. 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. 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.
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. Yeah.
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 возіншку, майосвозин хай шко, а най старте чи 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. It was these high achieving, really bright kids and a lot of kids with um executive functioning issues alongside that. And they were just hitting a wall and falling apart. And so that's sort of how I ended up writing the book and So my my passion is just trying to figure out How we help these kids in today's high pressure, high stakes achievement culture, you know, in really meeting their needs.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the Disintegrating Student and why do high‑performing kids fall apart?
0:00–6:06
2
How does the “rigor tipping point” trigger academic decline in smart students?
6:06–11:41
3
Why does a fixed mindset worsen the disintegration and how can a growth mindset help?
11:41–16:11
4
What is the “spotlight effect” and how does it affect teen self‑perception?
16:11–22:12
5
Can procrastination ever be a useful strategy for students?
22:12–26:36
6
What simple time‑management tools (master calendar & pocket schedule) can rescue struggling teens?
26:36–31:46
7
How do well‑intentioned parenting habits unintentionally reinforce disintegration?
31:46–36:55
8
Why is parental self‑care essential for supporting smart but struggling students?
36:55–41:10
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