Drive@5 8-13-2026

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Because I was planning on reading all through it tonight and maybe have an opinion on it tomorrow morning. I do have an opinion, though, on this story. Give a listen and tell me how you feel about this as school. is right around the corner. Mental health specialists say it's important for parents to read their kids' emotions, but not necessarily to give in to them. It's so tempting as a parent to say, oh, okay, we'll take a mental health day today and be able to go tomorrow. Pediatrician, Dr. Molly O'Shea, says that seems like a reasonable way to deal with a return to school. When actually that reinforces the anxiety and makes it even harder to go the next day. Crucial to a successful start to the academic year, cycling your kids bedtime back from a summer break schedule to the early. wake up time. Jim Ryan, ABC News. Well, yeah, that's always been the case. You got to practice. Hey, kids, you better practice. What do you mean? Well, like a week before school, you better start to get the bed earlier so you can practice getting up. That's the first issue. It's not even worth talking about because if you don't do that, then you're going to be behind the eight ball. The second issue is this. And it's one that I think is up for debate here and one we need to talk about. If your kid approaches you, and says, hey, from an emotional preparedness state and sort of category, I want to have a couple days into school, or I want to have at any point during the school year, or I want to have the first day of school, a mental health day. What's your response? Now, I know what I want my response to be. But then I also realize it's 2026. What I want my response to be is, okay. But you can't do that because everybody's feelings get hurt. So my response would be, what, huh? You want to have a mental health day from school. Okay, explain to me what's bothering you. All right. So this, that, or the other thing. All right, fine. It's not that you're getting picked on. I wouldn't think it's that. All right. wouldn't then, because the answer is going to be a firm no whenever we get to the A. You're not going to stay home from school to have a mental health break day. And if that part offends anybody who's listening, you're listening to the wrong guy. But where I will meet in the middle is this. I'm willing to have a conversation about it and get to the bottom of what is ailing you and try to fix it. But the fix can't be we're just going to punt on school today or any other day. And what's really interesting is this wouldn't be a topic, excuse me, I'm sorry, unless people had allowed this and facilitated this and greenlighted it at some point as parents. Because kids don't just dream this stuff up, right? And I don't want to sound like, again, some boomer or anything. But if a kid approaches you and goes, I need to have a mental health day from school. I'm...

We're going to talk about it, but the end result isn't going to be, okay, you can hang out in your room, you could go for a walk down the street, you could sit on the front porch or the back porch, but school isn't part of our routine today while it's a regularly scheduled school day. If you're sick, you're sick, and I get that mental health is health. I get that. But taking off school, when did we turn the corner? that we don't face what's going on in school to cause that problem, and we just say, just stay home and avoid it. And I thought that report did a good job of outlining that, but some people would have had to have gone that route for that to be the topic of discussion right there. You mean to tell me there are parents who go, you need a mental health break from school? All right. Why don't we just try again on Tuesday? That mortifies me. It just does. So for you, 866-391-10-20, 866-391-10-20. School year, it's upon us. Your kid, I don't know, five days, eight days, 10 days, 50 days into school. Let's say they're a high schooler. They come to you and they say, Mom, Dad, I just, I need a mental health day from school. What do you say? Do you talk through it with them? Do you give them the day off? You kick him in the pants and out the door? How's it work in your house? Let's talk next. Demand the yellow van. That's first. Service Master Greater Pittsburgh. When disaster strikes, you demand that yellow van and you do it right now. Water can get in. Man, rain all the time, it seems like, over the past, I don't know, 15 days or so. So listen here, these storms, they can cause serious damage and fast to your house, to your business, to any structure that you have. So when that water gets in through your roof, your windows, even through your basement, once it does, It's going anywhere at once. Service Master Greater Pittsburgh going to get in and mitigate all of this. Trusted local team, fast water extraction. Numbers easy to remember. 412 recover. That's 412 recover. When the water gets in, Service Master Greater Pittsburgh, they get to work. The best call to make worse situation possible. 412 recover, that's 412.