Yeah, I use mine up quickly too.
This parenting advice can be complicated with kids with medical challenges, psychiatric diagnoses, kids with learning challenges, ADHD, who are on the autism spectrum. Kids from low quality high schools who perhaps never experienced adequate help at school and aren’t used to expecting help, first generation kids, and probably many others. There are still many students who struggle or even crash and don’t tell their parents a thing until they have to, which is sometimes too late.
I guess my point is that this article targets a selective group of parents 