Parents: Educate yourself on asthma. It’s no surprise, but a recent study backs up what many of us know is too often the case – that parents tend to underestimate their children’s asthma symptoms.

The drugmaker-funded research found that asthma was only properly treated in six in 10 children, according to the study published in the European Respiratory Journal. Using stricter guidelines, the researchers found that only two of 10 kids had their asthma kept in check by medication.

"Physicians cannot just ask the parent 'how is your child doing?'” a doctor told Reuters. “The physician will get a global answer that doesn't reflect the child's quality of life.”