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What To Do When Your Kid Wants to Stay Home: School Avoidance 101 for Parents

What To Do When Your Kid Wants to Stay Home: School Avoidance 101 for Parents

Update: 2025-10-17
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What do you do when your child starts missing too many days of school? In this episode, Lynn and Robin address a mom’s question about her middle schooler who wants to stay home. Does she give consequences? How does she work with the school? What happens when home is more “cozy” or interesting than school? And have expectations around opting out of school changed since the pandemic? (Spoiler alert: yes, they have.)




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What To Do When Your Kid Wants to Stay Home: School Avoidance 101 for Parents

What To Do When Your Kid Wants to Stay Home: School Avoidance 101 for Parents

Lynn Lyons LICSW, Robin Hutson