~184~"WTF~Afraid of Labeling Your Teen? Listen Before You Say No to an Assessment"

And if the psychoeducational assessment is thorough and there are some challenges there, your kid will receive a diagnosis.

And a big question was, oh, we don't we don't what happened? We don't want to label our kid.

So let's talk about that, because we're not labeling our kid, we're giving them a diagnosis.

And how we approach that is gonna be everything.

Once you have your assessment in hand and you can have it broken down, interpreted into language we always use, as opposed to the language that's on these assessments, we can sit down with our kid and say, oh my goodness, Now I understand.

This is not to label you.

This is not to label our kids.

That's not the purpose.

The purpose is to understand our kid better.

It doesn't change our kid.

It doesn't change us as parents in our parenting.

But what it does is it helps us understand our kids better.

And in turn, they understand themselves better and then they can advocate for themselves.

So the school understands them better.

We advocate together.

So the school understands them better.

And if the psychoeducational assessment is thorough and there are some challenges there, your kid will receive a diagnosis.

And a big question was, oh, we don't we don't what happened? We don't want to label our kid.

So let's talk about that, because we're not labeling our kid, we're giving them a diagnosis.

And how we approach that is gonna be everything.

Once you have your assessment in hand and you can have it broken down, interpreted into language we always use, as opposed to the language that's on these assessments, we can sit down with our kid and say, oh my goodness, Now I understand.

This is not to label you.

This is not to label our kids.

That's not the purpose.

The purpose is to understand our kid better.

It doesn't change our kid.

It doesn't change us as parents in our parenting.

But what it does is it helps us understand our kids better.

And in turn, they understand themselves better and then they can advocate for themselves.

So the school understands them better.

We advocate together.

So the school understands them better.