This page contains useful resources for parents.
PARENTING TIPS:
• Avoid
nagging. Gentle reminders are welcome from time to time.
• Stop comparing your child with other students and their achievements.
• Have realistic expectation from your child as per his capabilities and interests.
• Don’t black-list activities that your child enjoys, like watching TV, playing games and sketching etc.
• Encourage sleep patterns and some form of regular exercises.
• Providing a healthy, positive and empathetic emotional environment is crucial, which parents are often forget.
• Highlight your child’s strengths. Encourage a dialogue to move ahead from past failures.
• Acknowledge that it is normal to be supersensitive and impulsive from time to time. Family members are usually the first targets. Try not to overreact to such outbursts.
• Don’t panic when they announce just before the examination that they don’t remember anything. Reassure them, even if you think they could be right. You can say something like this - ‘Just do the best you can. We know you’re giving it your best shot’.
• Encourage help from teachers or the school counsellor in course of any difficulty with subjects, or anxiety about examinations.
• During an entire day of 24 hours try to spend at least 15-30 minutes with your child, when you can indulge only in pleasant humoured talk. Remember, the magic of an “occasional hug” or an endearment like JADU KI JHAPPI!!!
• Stop comparing your child with other students and their achievements.
• Have realistic expectation from your child as per his capabilities and interests.
• Don’t black-list activities that your child enjoys, like watching TV, playing games and sketching etc.
• Encourage sleep patterns and some form of regular exercises.
• Providing a healthy, positive and empathetic emotional environment is crucial, which parents are often forget.
• Highlight your child’s strengths. Encourage a dialogue to move ahead from past failures.
• Acknowledge that it is normal to be supersensitive and impulsive from time to time. Family members are usually the first targets. Try not to overreact to such outbursts.
• Don’t panic when they announce just before the examination that they don’t remember anything. Reassure them, even if you think they could be right. You can say something like this - ‘Just do the best you can. We know you’re giving it your best shot’.
• Encourage help from teachers or the school counsellor in course of any difficulty with subjects, or anxiety about examinations.
• During an entire day of 24 hours try to spend at least 15-30 minutes with your child, when you can indulge only in pleasant humoured talk. Remember, the magic of an “occasional hug” or an endearment like JADU KI JHAPPI!!!
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