Children And Stress
Do Studies Cause Stress In Children?
Children are compared to angels. But the angels all over the world have
a problem, their never ending studies!
Well,
this is the major cause for stress in most of the children. You may ask
what other problems the children have except their school and studies.
Perhaps you are not fully familiar with the ways of the children and the
world of children. They have their own priorities.
Well, study is the main job and responsibility fixed by the
parents and the educational system of the day. But at the same time,
they spend substantial time with idiot box, hundreds of TV channels. Who
will patronize the pizza huts? Now, if you tell them to give up
everything and concentrate on studies alone, will it not cause stress
for them? Can't you understand their difficulty?
The number of
subjects, the number of languages they are expected to learn, the number
of assignments they are expected to do, the never ending homework, the
to and fro travel in those crowded buses, whether it is rain or shine,
you need to be a child again to understand their problems. And how
difficult it is to get the signature of the parents, if their progress
report is not up to the mark?
Parental involvement in the day to
day studies of the children, especially in matters related to their
homework, would create a sympathetic situation for the children. Parents
are the buffer zone between the children and the teachers. The teachers
can immediately spot the difference between the homework independently
done by the child and homework done with the assistance of the parents.
Parental involvement will help teachers with the confidence that their
efforts are supplemented at home by the parents. The children will also
find the situation more reassuring and their mental tension and stress
and fear of homework stands reduced to a great extent.
This
process of parental involvement again has its limitations. The working
parents can offer limited assistance to their children in studies as
they themselves are busy and overworked. Similarly, if the parents are
uneducated, except giving encouragements, they can do very little to
assist the children.
Parental involvement in reducing the stress
in children due to studies can not be exclusive. To get a good student,
a role model out of your kid, you need to take care of several other
aspects of their personality. You also need to take care about their
personal, intellectual and behavioral needs. The participation needs to
be multidimensional.