How Can I Help a 12 Year Old Miss School Work?

M mell: How can a mother transfer responsibility to her son without having him follow up with missing school work or assignments? She says he sounds pretty much like every 12 year old that we see in our clinics. M mell: It's so unfortunate that kids don't have an adult brain, because if they had the adult brain, they would think just like we do - well, this is important. But unfortunately, 12 year olds don't think that way,. So we have to kind of scoot them along in a way that understand.