I don't know if it could help but @drnaomifisher.bsky.social has a few courses around gelping teenagers, particularly around accepting a different path that isn't school and to heal from burnout.

Good point!

We need to help them out.

Making home less fun improves nothing.
It needs to stop. 9/

We need to help them out.

Making home less fun improves nothing.
It needs to stop. 9/

This is a high risk intervention. It risks pushing children into misery and burnout. Instead of helping, we’re making the child’s life worse.
This can’t be the solution. If children are unhappy at school, we need to ask why. 8/

I was surprised the first time I heard a story like Anni’s. Now I’ve heard similar stories too many times. But one thing that I do know is that parents are still being told to make their children less happy at home, so that school seems like less of a contrast. 7/

Her dad was horrified. Hang on a minute, he said.
She’s not happy at school and your suggestion is that the way to improve this is to make her less happy at home?
How will that improve things at school?
They didn’t have an answer. 6/

The solution? Make home less fun. Give her fewer choices, and less attention. They said that if she stayed home from school, then her parents should interact with her as little as possible. Take away her toys and put her in the front room alone.
That way school would seem better in comparison. 5/

Home was just too much fun and Anni was used to life being too pleasant. She was used to being able to make her own decisions and expected adults to listen to what she had to say. 4/

He was surprised, because it turned out that the school didn’t think the problem was anything to do with Anni’s time there. The issue, as they saw it, was that Anni’s parents were too nice to her at home. 3/

He’d expected a conversation about what was happening during the school day and whether there were any changes which could be made. 2/