Managing Teen Healthcare: From Privacy Rights to Their First Phone

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Understanding Teen Healthcare - If you're new to teen privacy rights and developmental challenges
Building Systems for Success - If you need practical systems for graduated independence
When They Get Their Own Phone - If your teen just got their first phone and coordination is now complicated
Advanced Topics - If you're managing chronic conditions, mental health, or college prep

Your 16-year-old daughter just got her first smartphone. She's thrilled about the independence, the social connection, the feeling of being almost an adult. Then she gets a text reminder about her dermatology appointment next Tuesday, and suddenly she's asking why you need to know every time she goes to the doctor.

Welcome to the complicated world of managing health care for teenagers—old enough to want privacy, but not quite ready to handle everything themselves. Add in the legal reality that teenagers have health care privacy rights starting at age 12-14 in most states, and you're navigating a minefield of parental responsibility versus adolescent autonomy.

The challenge isn't just logistical—though coordinating appointments with a teenager's schedule and their new phone is hard enough. It's also emotional, legal, and technological. How do you ensure your teen actually attends appointments and receives appropriate care while respecting their growing need for privacy and independence?

Section 1: Understanding Teen Healthcare

Understanding Healthcare Privacy Rights for Teens

Here's what many parents don't realize: your teenager has legal health care privacy rights that supersede your parental authority in certain situations.

Starting around age 12-14, depending on your state, teens can consent to certain types of health care without parental permission or knowledge. This typically includes mental health treatment, substance abuse services, sexual and reproductive health care, and treatment for sexually transmitted infections.

By age 18, your child has full medical privacy rights. Legally, health care providers cannot share information with you without your adult child's explicit permission—even if you're paying for their insurance.

But even before 18, many health care providers honor teen privacy requests for routine care. If your 16-year-old asks the doctor not to share something with you, many providers will comply unless there's a safety concern.

This isn't providers being difficult. It's them recognizing that teens need some health care privacy to get necessary care. Studies show that teens avoid seeking health care for sensitive issues if they think their parents will be told everything.

Understanding these privacy rights helps you work within the system rather than fighting against it. You're not losing control of your child's health care—you're helping them learn to manage it themselves while you're still there to catch major problems.

The Developmental Challenge

Teenagers exist in a frustrating middle ground. They're capable of understanding health information, making basic appointments, and managing simple medication regimens. But they're also impulsive, forgetful, and overly confident in their abilities.

Your teen genuinely believes they'll remember their orthodontist appointment next Wednesday. They won't. They're certain they can get themselves to the dermatologist appointment after school. They'll forget and go hang out with friends instead.

This isn't irresponsibility or defiance—it's normal adolescent brain development. The prefrontal cortex responsible for planning and impulse control isn't fully developed until the mid-20s. Your teen literally doesn't have the brain hardware yet for reliable appointment management.

Yet they need to learn these skills. They'll be legally independent adults in a few years, responsible for their own health care. If you manage everything for them now, they'll hit college with zero idea how to schedule a doctor's appointment or refill a prescription.

Your job is supporting their growing independence while preventing health care gaps caused by incomplete development.

Section 2: Building Systems for Success

Creating a Graduated Independence System

The solution isn't all-or-nothing control. It's gradually increasing your teen's responsibility for their health care while maintaining appropriate oversight.

The progression might look like this:

Age 13: You handle all scheduling and attend all appointments
Ages 14-15: They learn to schedule with your help and attend routine visits alone
Ages 16-17: They schedule independently with you as backup, manage most appointments alone, check in about significant health issues
Age 18: Fully independent but you're available as a resource when needed

This graduated system acknowledges increasing capability while recognizing that teenagers need scaffolding. They're not yet adults, but they're not children either.

The specific timeline depends on your individual teen. Some 15-year-olds are remarkably organized and responsible. Others at 17 still need significant support. Adjust the system to match your teen's actual abilities, not their age.

Appointment Scheduling: Who Does What

Teaching teens to schedule their own appointments is harder than it sounds. They need to know:

Which doctor they need to see and why
How to find the provider's contact information
What information they'll need to provide (insurance, reason for visit)
How to choose between available appointment times
How to add the appointment to a calendar they'll actually check

Start with low-stakes appointments. Your teen's annual checkup is a good first solo scheduling experience. The stakes are low, the provider's office is familiar, and you can intervene if something goes wrong.

Walk through the first few times together. Call the office with your teen listening, showing them what information to provide. Have them make the call with you in the room so you can help if they get stuck.

Create a scheduling checklist they can reference:

Provider name and phone number
Patient name and birthdate
Insurance information
Reason for visit and any symptoms
Preferred date and time ranges
Questions to ask about preparation or paperwork

Many teens find scheduling by phone anxiety-inducing. If the provider offers online scheduling, that might be easier for your teen to manage independently.

The Calendar Problem

Your teen needs a calendar system they'll actually use. The beautiful shared family calendar you maintain is useless if they never look at it.

Most teens live on their phones. Their calendar needs to be on their phone, with reminders they can't ignore. Help them set up their phone calendar app with automatic reminders 24 hours before appointments, additional reminders the morning of appointments, travel time built in so reminders account for getting there, and enough appointment detail that they remember why they're going.

Consider keeping a parallel system for yourself—a shared calendar where your teen's appointments also appear so you can prompt if needed. This isn't micromanaging; it's appropriate oversight for someone still learning to manage appointments. For more on creating family coordination systems, see our complete guide.

Some families use shared calendar apps where each person manages their own events but everyone can see others' schedules. This gives your teen ownership while maintaining your visibility.

Transportation Logistics

Transportation is often the real barrier to teen appointment attendance. Your 15-year-old can't drive themselves. Your 16-year-old has a license but maybe shouldn't drive alone to unfamiliar locations yet. Even your 17-year-old might need backup if appointments conflict with school or activities.

Create clear transportation protocols before scheduling appointments. For each appointment, decide: Can your teen get there independently (walking, biking, public transit)? Do they need you to drive them? Can another parent, sibling, or friend help? Is a rideshare service appropriate for this appointment?

Block transportation time on your own calendar immediately when appointments are scheduled. Don't wait until the week before to figure out how your teen will get there.

For appointments where your teen drives themselves, confirm they know how to get there, where to park, which entrance to use, and how long the appointment typically takes so they don't schedule back-to-back commitments.

Deciding When to Attend Appointments

Figuring out which appointments require your presence and which your teen can handle alone is tricky. Consider:

For routine checkups with familiar providers, teens can usually attend alone by age 14-15. For first visits with new providers, attend together through high school. For appointments involving significant diagnoses or treatment decisions, your presence is appropriate regardless of your teen's age. For sensitive appointments where your teen requests privacy, respect that unless there's a safety concern.

When you do attend, stay in the waiting room unless your teen asks you to come in or the provider requests it. This gives them some privacy while keeping you available.

Afterward, respect your teen's boundaries about what they share. You can ask "How did it go?" without demanding detailed medical information they have the right to keep private.

Managing the Information Flow

You need enough information to ensure your teen receives appropriate care, but not so much that you violate their privacy or autonomy.

Create clear agreements about what information gets shared: appointment dates and times (for coordination purposes), new diagnoses or significant health changes, prescribed medications (for safety and refill management), follow-up requirements or referrals, and anything affecting school or activities.

Your teen doesn't have to share details of sensitive appointments, specific symptoms discussed unless they choose to, personal conversations with providers, or medical information they have a legal right to keep private.

Some families use a "need to know" test. Ask yourself whether you genuinely need specific information for safety or coordination, or whether you just want to know out of parental concern.

The Mental Health Exception

Mental health care for teens is particularly sensitive. Many states give teens explicit privacy rights for mental health treatment, recognizing that some teens won't seek help if parents will be told everything.

If your teen is in therapy, you might know they have appointments but not what's discussed. This is appropriate and healthy. Therapists need to build trust with teen clients, which is impossible if teens think everything will be reported to parents.

You can and should communicate with your teen's therapist about logistics, insurance, and general progress without requiring disclosure of session content. Most therapists will gladly discuss whether your teen is engaging with treatment and whether there are safety concerns without sharing therapeutic details.

If you're concerned about your teen's mental health but they won't share details, focus on observable behaviors rather than trying to extract information about their appointments.

Teaching Healthcare Responsibility

Use appointment management as a teaching opportunity for broader health care skills.

When appointments are scheduled, discuss why this appointment is necessary, what the provider typically does during these visits, what questions your teen might want to ask, and how to prepare appropriately.

After appointments, talk through what the provider recommended, whether follow-up is needed, if medications were prescribed and why, and how to remember any instructions given.

This meta-conversation about health care helps your teen understand the bigger picture beyond just showing up to appointments.

Handling Missed Appointments

Your teen will miss appointments. They'll forget despite reminders. They'll decide something else is more important. They'll get distracted and lose track of time.

Create consequences that are logical and educational rather than punitive. If they miss an appointment: They call to reschedule, not you. They pay any missed appointment fee from their own money. They create a prevention plan for the next appointment. They attend the rescheduled appointment even if it's inconvenient.

The goal isn't punishment—it's helping them understand that missed appointments have consequences and they're responsible for fixing problems they create. For more strategies to prevent missed appointments, see our comprehensive guide.

Managing Chronic Conditions

Teens with chronic conditions face additional challenges. They have more appointments to remember, more complex medication regimens, and higher stakes if care is interrupted.

For chronically ill teens, maintain more oversight than you would for healthy peers. This isn't being overprotective—it's recognizing that managing chronic illness is hard even for adults, and teenagers genuinely need more support.

Create systems specific to their condition: medication reminders that account for school schedules, appointment calendars that show all providers involved in their care, symptom tracking methods they can manage independently, emergency protocols they can follow without you, and communication channels with their care team. For more on managing multiple specialists, see our organization tips.

Section 3: When They Get Their Own Phone

The day your teenager gets their own phone is exciting—for them. For you, it's the moment you realize that appointment reminders you've been texting to your own phone won't reach them anymore. That shared family calendar they never looked at? Still won't help. Medical offices that text confirmation to "the patient's phone" now reach your 15-year-old directly, who promptly ignores the message.

Getting their own phone is a major independence milestone for teens. It's also the moment when health care appointment coordination gets significantly more complicated. Your teen has their own number, their own messages, their own calendar—and absolutely no systems for managing any of it responsibly.

The Information Flow Problem

Before your teen had their own phone, you controlled the entire information pipeline. Appointment confirmations came to you. Reminder texts arrived on your device. You had complete visibility into every health care communication.

Now the provider's office texts appointment reminders to your teen's phone. Your teen sees the message, thinks "I'll remember that," and immediately forgets. By the time you realize there's an appointment next week, it's too late to make arrangements.

The solution isn't trying to maintain the old system where everything comes to you. Your teen is too old for that level of oversight, and most providers won't cooperate anyway. Instead, you need new systems that work with your teen's independence while ensuring you have the information you need for coordination.

Setting Up Shared Calendars

The most important step when your teen gets their own phone is setting up a shared calendar system immediately—before they've developed their own bad habits.

Choose a calendar platform everyone in your family uses. Google Calendar works well because it's cross-platform and most teens already have Google accounts for school. Apple Calendar works if everyone uses Apple devices. The specific platform matters less than picking one and using it consistently.

Create a "Family Health care" calendar that everyone shares. Your teen adds their appointments to this calendar. You can see their appointments and add your own. Siblings can see what days are busy without necessarily knowing private medical details.

Walk through the setup with your teen. Don't just tell them to "use the calendar." Show them: how to add events with all necessary details (provider, location, time), how to set reminders that will actually get their attention, how to share the calendar if they haven't already, and how to check the calendar before making other commitments.

Set up the calendar on their phone together. Install the app, log in, verify the shared calendar appears, test that events sync properly, and create their first few events together to reinforce the process.

Managing Appointment Confirmations

Medical offices send appointment confirmations and reminders to the phone number on file. Once your teen has their own phone, update their contact information strategically.

For some providers, it makes sense to keep your number as the primary contact. Your teen's pediatrician who they've seen since birth? Maybe your number stays primary until they're 18. Their long-term specialist for a chronic condition? Your oversight might be warranted.

For other providers, your teen's number should be primary. Their orthodontist? Teen's number. Their dermatologist? Teen's number. Routine care they can manage independently? Teen's number.

When your teen's number is primary, add yourself as a secondary contact or emergency contact. Many provider systems allow multiple phone numbers. Request that the office note in their system: "Please confirm appointments with both patient and parent."

Some offices will do this reliably. Others won't. Accept that you won't have perfect visibility into every confirmation.

Teaching Text Message Management

Your teen receives appointment confirmation texts. Do they know what to do with them?

Probably not. Many teens treat appointment texts like social media notifications—glance at them and forget them immediately. Teaching your teen to actually process these messages is critical.

Create a specific protocol for appointment-related texts. When your teen receives an appointment confirmation, they should: read the entire message immediately, confirm the date and time mentally, add it to the calendar right now (not later), set reminders, and text or show you the confirmation.

This last step—showing you the confirmation—bridges their independence with your coordination needs. They're managing the appointment themselves, but you're aware it exists.

Some teens need phone-based reminders to check for appointment texts. A daily 7pm reminder that says "Check for any appointment texts today" can catch messages they'd otherwise ignore.

The Reminder System Problem

Teens are terrible at responding to advance reminders. A reminder 24 hours before an appointment is useless if they look at it, think "okay, that's tomorrow," and then forget again 10 minutes later.

Your teen needs a layered reminder system: one week before (gives time to arrange transportation and prepare), 24 hours before (confirms it's still happening), the morning of (final preparation reminder), and one hour before (time to leave).

But here's the problem: most appointment systems send only one reminder. Your teen needs to create their own additional reminders.

When your teen adds an appointment to their calendar, teach them to set multiple alerts at different intervals. Calendar apps allow this—it's just a setting most people don't use.

Show your teen how to customize alerts for different appointment types. Maybe orthodontist appointments need just one reminder because they're routine. But a new specialist consultation needs multiple reminders plus a note about bringing paperwork.

Transportation Coordination

Before your teen had their own phone, you knew about every appointment and could plan transportation. Now appointments might be scheduled without your knowledge until the day before—or the day of.

Create explicit rules about transportation planning. Your teen can schedule appointments independently, but they must confirm transportation arrangements at least 48 hours in advance.

This might mean: texting you the appointment details as soon as it's scheduled, adding transportation notes to the shared calendar event ("Mom driving" or "Will get ride with Sarah's mom"), confirming the plan again the day before.

For teens who drive themselves, require they confirm: they know how to get there, where to park, when they need to leave accounting for traffic, and that they've blocked adequate time before and after.

Many teens underestimate travel time or forget to account for parking. A 2pm appointment that requires 20 minutes driving plus 10 minutes parking plus 5 minutes finding the office means leaving by 1:25pm, not 1:55pm.

Many patient portals require separate accounts for patients 12 and older. Your teen now needs their own portal login credentials.

This creates both opportunity and challenge. Opportunity because your teen can learn to manage their own health care information. Challenge because they'll forget their password 47 times.

Set up your teen's portal accounts together. Use their phone so the credentials are saved in their device. Enable biometric login (fingerprint or face ID) so they don't have to remember passwords constantly.

For sensitive portals they shouldn't lose access to, consider using a password manager. Teach your teen how to use it responsibly. This is a good life skill regardless of health care applications.

Decide together what portal information they'll share with you. Maybe they show you appointment schedules but not detailed visit notes. Perhaps you have your own proxy access to some portals but not others.

Creating Accountability Without Micromanaging

Your teen needs to learn responsibility for their appointments, but that doesn't mean you abandon all oversight.

Set up accountability checkpoints that verify they're managing things without you micromanaging every detail. For example:

Sunday evening family check-ins where everyone reviews their upcoming week. Your teen mentions any appointments they have. You verify transportation plans without interrogating them about medical details.

A shared "upcoming appointments" note that everyone updates. Your teen adds their appointments there. You glance at it weekly to verify nothing is falling through cracks.

Periodic calendar audits where you compare your teen's calendar against appointment confirmations you have. This catches any appointments they forgot to enter.

These checkpoints provide oversight without hovering. Your teen manages their own appointments but knows you're verifying things are handled.

When Appointments Get Missed

Despite everyone's best efforts, appointments will get missed. Your teen forgets. The reminder system fails. Transportation falls through.

Create a clear protocol for missed appointments: your teen discovers it (hopefully before you do), your teen calls to reschedule immediately, your teen implements a prevention measure for next time, and your teen pays any missed appointment fee from their own money.

The key is making this their problem to solve, not yours. You can help them think through what went wrong and how to prevent it, but they do the work of fixing it.

If appointments are consistently missed despite systems, reassess whether your teen is ready for this level of independence. Some teens need more oversight longer.

Managing Multiple Communication Channels

Health care providers use multiple communication methods: phone calls, text messages, emails, portal messages, and physical mail. Your teen needs to monitor all these channels.

Most teens check texts religiously but ignore email and never log into portals. This creates gaps where important information gets missed.

Create a weekly routine where your teen checks all health care communication channels: email inbox (search for provider names), patient portal messages, voicemail (yes, teens need to check this), and any physical mail that came to the house.

This weekly check catches things that slipped through. A portal message about a scheduling change. An email with pre-appointment instructions. A voicemail about insurance authorization.

Handling Emergency Situations

Teach your teen how to handle health care situations that can't wait for scheduled appointments.

They need to know: when to call you immediately versus handling it themselves, how to determine if something needs urgent care, who to call for different types of problems (after-hours nurse line, urgent care, emergency room), and what information providers will need (symptoms, medications, insurance).

Role-play some scenarios. "You're at school and your chronic condition is flaring up. What do you do?" Walk through the decision tree together.

Your teen's own phone creates natural privacy boundaries. You can't casually glance at their appointment confirmations anymore because they're on their device, not yours.

This is developmentally appropriate. Teens need some health care privacy. But you also need enough information for coordination and safety. Understanding privacy considerations when managing someone else's health care applies to teens as well as aging parents—the principles of balancing oversight with autonomy are similar.

Create explicit agreements about what gets shared: appointment dates and times (always), significant diagnoses or health changes (always), prescribed medications (always), sensitive appointment details (teen's choice), and routine visit outcomes (teen's choice).

Make it clear that this isn't about you prying—it's about ensuring they get appropriate care and maintaining household coordination. When you need to share appointment information with family members, having these boundaries established makes the process smoother.

Technology That Actually Helps

Look for tools that bridge your teen's independence with your coordination needs without being invasive.

Shared calendar apps with appropriate visibility settings let everyone see schedules without reading private details. Family organization apps designed for teens can include appointment coordination features. Some apps let you set up automated check-ins ("Did you add that appointment to the calendar?") without constant nagging.

The best technology solutions feel helpful to your teen, not like surveillance. If they experience it as you monitoring their every move, they'll find workarounds.

Section 4: Advanced Topics

Preparing for College Transition

If your teen is college-bound, start preparing for complete health care independence at least a year before they leave.

By senior year of high school, they should be scheduling all their own appointments, managing all their own medications, communicating directly with providers, knowing their insurance information, and handling prescription refills.

Help them find providers near college. If they have ongoing conditions, establish care with college-area providers before they move. Make sure they know how to handle health care emergencies away from home.

Before leaving for college, request and download complete medical records from current providers—having this history available makes establishing care at college health centers much easier. Understand how your insurance works for out-of-network care or care in another state, as college health centers may not be in your plan's network. Set up emergency contact protocols: who they should call first (campus health, you, 911), how to reach you for urgent but non-emergency situations, and how to handle off-campus care if needed.

Create a health care independence checklist for college prep: established with a primary care provider near college, understand their insurance coverage and how to use it (including out-of-network procedures), know how to access mental health services through the college, have prescription refill systems that work long-distance, can schedule appointments without parental help, and have complete medical records and insurance cards readily accessible.

Everything you're setting up now—shared calendars, communication protocols, accountability checkpoints—aren't just about managing appointments. They're about teaching responsibility and building skills they'll use for life.

When Independence Isn't Working

Sometimes graduated independence isn't progressing. Your 17-year-old still forgets every appointment despite reminders. Your 16-year-old refuses to schedule needed follow-up visits. Your teen with diabetes isn't managing their condition reliably.

When independence isn't working, it's appropriate to step back in with more oversight. This isn't failure—it's recognizing that your teen needs more support than you initially thought.

Be honest with your teen: "I've been trying to give you more independence with health care, but appointments are getting missed and that's not safe. We need to try a different system."

The goal is still independence, but the timeline might need to be slower. Some teens need more scaffolding for longer periods.

Balancing Safety and Privacy

The hardest part of managing teen health care is knowing when to prioritize safety over privacy.

Should you honor your teen's request not to share information with their other parent? If you suspect your teen isn't taking prescribed medication but they won't discuss it, do you contact their provider? When your teen refuses a recommended appointment, should you force the issue?

There's no universal answer. Consider: Is there genuine safety risk or just your worry? Does your teen have the legal right to refuse? Are you concerned about a real problem or just uncomfortable with independence?

When in doubt, focus on safety. A violated privacy boundary can be repaired. Harm from inadequate health care can't.

The Real Goal

Remember that the goal isn't perfect appointment management now. It's teaching your teen to manage their own health care competently before they're legally independent.

Missed appointments serve as learning opportunities. Scheduling mistakes provide practice for getting it right next time. Every conflict about privacy is a chance to discuss boundaries and responsibility.

Your teen will be bad at this initially. They'll forget appointments, misunderstand instructions, and make poor decisions. That's normal and expected. Your job is providing enough oversight to prevent serious harm while giving enough independence to learn from mistakes.

By the time they're adults, they should be able to schedule their own appointments reliably, understand their insurance coverage, communicate effectively with providers, manage medications independently, and know when they need help.

That's the goal—not controlling their health care, but preparing them to manage it themselves.

Frequently Asked Questions

At what age should my teen start managing their own medical appointments? Begin teaching appointment management around age 13-14 with low-stakes appointments like annual checkups. By 16-17, most teens should handle routine scheduling independently with you as backup. The specific timeline depends on your teen's maturity and organizational skills—some need more support than others.

Can my teen refuse medical treatment I think they need? This depends on their age and the type of treatment. Teens typically have legal rights to consent to or refuse certain care (mental health, reproductive health) starting around age 12-14. For other care, parents generally have authority until age 18. However, forcing unwanted medical care on older teens is rarely effective—focus on understanding their concerns and building agreement.

How do I handle my teen's healthcare privacy rights when I'm paying for their insurance? Paying for insurance doesn't override your teen's legal privacy rights. Health care providers must respect teen privacy for protected categories of care regardless of who pays. You can request that billing information come to you without accessing detailed medical records. Focus on what you need to know for safety and coordination rather than demanding full disclosure.

Should I attend my teen's therapy appointments? No, unless the therapist specifically requests family sessions. Your teen's individual therapy should be private. However, you can and should communicate with the therapist about logistics, whether your teen is attending regularly, and general progress without requiring disclosure of session content. Many therapists also offer periodic parent check-ins separate from your teen's sessions.

What if my teen keeps missing appointments despite reminders? Missing appointments signals they're not ready for full independence yet. Step back in with more oversight—verify they've added appointments to their calendar, send your own reminders, and confirm transportation plans. Create logical consequences (they reschedule, they pay fees) rather than punitive ones. If missing appointments continues, they need more structure and less autonomy temporarily.

Should I keep my teen's medical appointments on my phone or make them manage their own calendar? Both. Use a shared calendar system where your teen adds appointments to their device and you can view them on yours. This gives them ownership while ensuring you have visibility for coordination. The shared approach teaches responsibility while maintaining appropriate parental oversight during the transition to independence.

What if my teen keeps ignoring appointment reminder texts? Set up multiple reminder layers at different intervals (one week, 24 hours, morning of, one hour before). Have your teen customize calendar alerts beyond what the provider sends. If reminders continue to be ignored, implement accountability measures like having them pay missed appointment fees from their own money, which makes the consequences more immediate.

How do I get medical offices to text both me and my teen about appointments? Request that offices add you as a secondary contact or emergency contact in their system. Ask them to note "Please confirm appointments with both patient and parent." Some offices will comply reliably, others won't. For critical appointments, maintain your number as primary contact while gradually transitioning routine appointments to your teen's number.

At what age should teens manage their own patient portal accounts? Many large health systems create teen-specific portal access around age 13 and limit what parents can see, so check your provider's policy to understand when separate logins are required. Set up their accounts together on their device with biometric login enabled. Begin with you having proxy access and gradually reduce your involvement as they demonstrate competence. By 16-17, most teens should manage routine portal tasks independently while consulting you for significant health decisions.

How can I teach my teen to handle medical appointments without micromanaging them? Establish regular accountability checkpoints rather than constant monitoring. Weekly family schedule reviews, shared calendar audits, and explicit transportation coordination requirements provide oversight without hovering. Let them experience natural consequences of missed appointments (rescheduling hassle, paying fees) while you're still available to help them learn from mistakes.

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