 It was just exciting to me to watch teachers working with the parents tonight and parents so engaged with each other around learning something that can empower them in so many different areas. To support, to monitor, and to advocate for your child. These are roles that we really have to be doing with our children throughout their educational careers. Come up with two ways that you are currently supporting your child. First and foremost is I make sure that they have everything that they need. I feel like I'm supporting my child just from being here to learn how to go forward. I'm making sure that I encourage a regular after school and evening routine. Keep track of your children's progress. Pay attention to their needs. What are you doing to monitor your child? Speak and make specific requests. Parents can also advocate for the needs of all children. So here's your question. What are examples of situations in which you have advocated for your child at the school or in other environments? How are you advocating for your child? Also, here it happened to me that Manuel didn't want to put him in a program of Learning Disabilities so that he could learn it. And there I had to go with the doctor so that they could examine him. To see if in any other way they could accommodate him in a program where he could help with what he brought. So that was my experience. Because I did everything possible so that he could have that help. In both cases. I had a step son that attended this school last year. And he came from a different school district in the fifth grade at a first grade in Green Club. And so by the time he graduated, he was like reading like two and three levels above when he started. And he ended up getting a predetermined award. But that was just like really pushing for him and emailing the district. Like I need something to happen today, not tomorrow. So I'm like really getting along when it comes to my child. What could happen if you support and monitor but you don't advocate? You're like the backbone for your child. The moral is that their mindset is right. And if you're not advocating them, it's kind of like you're not giving them that relief that they can do it. What could happen if you advocate but you don't support and monitor? For me it's confusion. I mean it's like you're trying to help him on one side but you don't know what he's doing in the classroom. I couldn't answer these. I was like because they all three go hand in hand like yeah. I'm going to give us an example of what is something that you've learned. I put my kids to bed early to make sure they have a good breakfast and everything. And I didn't realize that as me supporting them until they brought it up. So I was like that's something that I was like well I'm doing all these other things too that I didn't realize that is actually really supporting them with school and everything as well. Advocate, support and monitor. I didn't want to help me partner with the teachers because I realized I wasn't really I wasn't really being as strong of an advocate for my child because I probably shouldn't have done it. It kind of made me notice okay some of the things that I don't do consistently and I think it would be good for other parents to realize that. Well they all go hand in hand you know you can't do one without the other I feel or that's what I learned today. They're so important in your child's education because a lot of the times I mean they're going to school but they can only do so much themselves. A lot of parents realized tonight that they were doing more than they even thought they were. It's literally creating a focus on what it is that you want to do you know. It's clearing away all the clutter and getting down to the essence of whatever the action is. It's something that can make you more effective, more effective and more efficient. They fit together so nicely the three-year-olds support monitor and advocate. I feel like that can help us build trust and relational trust in particular with each other. Then we can do that important work of assuming good intentions on both parts to help move our kids forward.