How can parents help children handle examination stress? 5 helpful tips

Students tend to experience examination stress due to intense pressure to either meet their parents’ expectations or to qualify for the course they want to pursue.

While a little bit of stress motivate them to excel, too much of examination stress can cause difficulties with their physical health, sleeping patterns and brain function. As a result, understanding how to manage examination stress during period of exams is a necessary skill for all.

Here are 5 valuable and practical tips to help instill confidence in your child during examinations.

5 helpful tips to manage examination stress

The power of communication and unwavering support

Open communication is one of the fundamental things that parents can do for their children to help them cope with stress. Allow your children to express their worries and share their feelings with you.

Before they go for an exam, be positive and encouraging. Avoid criticism and negativity. Your child will be pleased to know that you are available to listen to and support them. Most importantly, make sure that you don’t pile on the pressure on them to achieve certain results. Encourage them at all times to do their best without being overly tough on them.

Teach your children relaxation skills

Learning relaxation skills at a young age can help your child succeed later in life. Calming techniques, often known as relaxation techniques help reduce the impact of stress on your child’s mind and body. These tactics are simple to learn and can help your child deal with stress at school, at home, or anyplace else in their surroundings. Deep breathing, meditation, yoga, aromatherapy, music and art therapy are typical calming techniques.

Access to the right educational resource

Sometimes during the revision stage, your child may have academic queries that require expert guidance to gain clarity on certain subjects. It is imperative to have access to the right educational resources. There are tutoring platforms that help the students to resolve their queries. This is particularly useful if the child has last-minute exam nerves and needs counseling support or needs guidance on a certain topic.

Set a good example by managing your stress

Because our children pay close attention to what we say and do as parents, we must take time to deal with our own stress. The more we take care of ourselves as adults, the better we can assist our children in dealing with stress.

Start by eating enough amount of necessary nutrients, doing at least 30 minutes of physical exercise a few days a week, and at least seven hours of sleep every night if you have certain bad habits to break.

Maintain a healthy lifestyle

Too often, we have heard or learned about healthy lifestyle. During exam time, It is all the more important to maintain the healthy lifestyle. Children often spend a large portion of the day engrossed in revision, whilst forgetting to eat healthy and sleep well. Remember, that a lack of sleep can exacerbate anxiousness in kids. As a result, it is critical to instill healthy behavior patterns in your child, especially when they are revising for hours at stretch.

Parents must encourage their children to eat a healthy and balanced diet and ensure that they get enough sleep, particularly in the run-up to the exams. For eg: children need 9-11 hours of sleep every day. If your children get enough sleep, it will benefit both their physical and mental capacities.

Examination stress is temporary. As parents, we should keep a close on eye on our child, whilst ensuring that they are equipped with the correct tools to handle examination stress. Ultimately, it will be parents’ unwavering support and guidance that will help them get through these stressful days.

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