Parental Exam Tips:
Exam Tips for parents; with final exams around the corner, below are some tips for parents to ensure that there is smooth sailing during this period of high stress.
Exam tips:
Encourage them to ready their exam equipment, such as pencils, pens, notebooks and other stationary
If they are going for a board exam, to a different center than their usual school, do a dry run, on how long it takes to reach the exam center at the scheduled time, as parent keep your vehicle prepped up.
Prepare a checklist of what they need to carry with them, run through the checklist to make sure that everything is assembled
Make sure that your child understands and believes that you are proud of them, and will love them irrespective of how they fare in the exams. Create an environment of encouragement and positivity around them. In our family it is about eating a special meal (sweet rice and curd) and a quick trip to the neighborhood temple, create a pre-exam routine for your child
Post the exam tips:
The period after the exams is a time to talk about how your children feel, allow them to talk while you listen to them. Ensure that they don’t focus on their mistakes. This is a good time to share your own experiences with examinations when you were growing up. This is a time to provide encouragement and allay their fears, plan on some fun activities with your child. In India board exams (class X, and specifically class XII) and the ensuing results are an important milestone in a child’s life, they have their own fears and apprehensions of the future, you are as parent need to the calming force and energy in this period.
One of my favorite sayings: “When thinking of life, no amount of guilt can solve the past, and no amount of anxiety can solve the future. “
