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Helping Children to Cope with Exam Stress

Helping Children to Cope with Exam Stress

Parents can play important role to help children cope with exam stress. Not only child but also parents cope with stress when they see their children coping with exam stress. However, handling the situation calmly will help you as well as your child to cope with exam stress easily. Read on to know more about how you can help your child to cope with exam stress.

The phase during exams is the most stressful phase for children. At this time the only thing which can help children to cope with exam stress is support from parents. Therefore, it is really critical for parents to shore up their child during this stressful phase of exams. Your support will definitely help them to cope with exam stress as well as help them to do well in the exams. Read on to know how you can help your child to cope with exam stress.

Help to Solve Difficulties and Queries

Though it is difficult, you need be always there for solving difficulties of your child. Do not let the difficulties of your child only be with your child. Make sure that you share your child’s difficulties and solve queries at least during exams. However, it will be very helpful for you as well as your child if you try to make sure few days before the exams if your child has any difficulty or not especially, in subjects like Math.

Help to Build Positive Attitude

Help your child to imbibe positive attitude if he or she is scared of exams. Positive attitude will make your child confident and help to reduce exam stress. However, make sure that you child is not overconfident during exams. Keep proper track in advance to make sure that your child has learnt everything properly before exams to avoid exam stress.

Provide Right Nutrition

Make sure that you provide right nutrition to your child. Many a times parents tend to give whatever their child would like to eat during exams. Such food stuffs include chips, pizzas, burgers, cakes etc. Instead of providing your child with fast food during exams, try to make sure that your child is having a balanced diet during exam. Eating right during exams is very important and it is a proved fact that right diet can help child to do well in exams.

Do not Yell at Your Child

Do not yell or shout at your child if he or she is not able to solve all questions or has done some mistake. Try to support your child as much as you can so that the exam stress does not affect the performance in other papers. At the same time, shouting and yelling at your child may have long term effect which is not good for the development of child.

Practice Stress Management Techniques

If you practice stress management techniques like meditation with your child during exams, it will prove really beneficial for child to cope with exam stress. It is not necessary to spend hours for managing stress. You can practice meditation or deep breathing technique just for 10 to 15 minutes in a day. Giving sometime for stress management will definitely help your child to cope with exam stress easily and score good marks.

Try to Keep Family Problems Away

If you have any difference with your family members or spouse, try to keep it away. Do not fight in front of your child at least during exams. Such things can increase stress level of your child and make it difficult for him to cope with exam stress.

Avoid Questioning and Putting Pressure

Avoid bombarding with questions as soon as your child arrives. Let him or her relax for sometime after coming back and then you can chit-chat with your child. If you want, you can review the question papers with your child after the exams are over. At the same time, avoid putting pressure on your child to study hard day and night. However, do not stop motivating your child to study hard. Do not forget that there is huge difference between motivating and pressurising the child.

Celebrate After the Exams

Celebrate after the exams are over. Go out for a vacation or arrange a small get together for your child with his or her friends. If you do not have time you can just take your child out for dinner or movie. Such things will help to release exam stress and your child will get motivated to work harder for next exams.

In this way you can play an important role in helping your child to cope with exam stress. Do not forget to reward your child when he or she performs well and scores good marks. Remember, nothing is as important as your love, care and support for your child.




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Mahant
Mahant.12 years ago
good well written article. I appreciate the effort taken by you guys in putting forth such informative and well researched articles.
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Kanha
Kanha.12 years ago
very relevant article. Keep posting such articles. these are really very helpful.
 
 
 
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Mashan
Mashan.12 years ago
to be able to cope with exam stress is very important for all kids as well as parents. exam time should be chilled out by preparing early.
 
 
 
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