One of the hardest things to do as a parent is to let go.
There is a natural tendency to want to keep supporting your children, and helping them through life. Some parents take this to extremes, and may even try to do everything for their children. Setting aside whether you think that is healthy for either child or parent, there is one area where you really cannot do it for them: exams. At some point, your child will have to go into an exam room, and sit and do an exam for themselves. So what can you do to help them to prepare for this moment? This page provides some ideas. It’s not about youIt is important to remember that your child’s performance in exams is not about you. It does not reflect on you in any way. If they choose not to work, that is their problem, not yours. (Well, maybe it’s yours too, but not in quite the same way). One of our key jobs as parents is to help our children to develop their own intrinsic motivation. This means the capacity to want to do things because they are worth doing, and not because someone else is standing over them telling them that they must. Standing over your child telling them to revise, and how to do it, does NOT help them to develop their own intrinsic motivation. There is more about intrinsic motivation on our page: Self-Motivation. It is, however, perfectly reasonable to help your child to think through the consequences of failure, which might include, for example:
Read more at: https://www.skillsyouneed.com/parent/exams-supporting-children.html Developing Habits of Studying First of all, it is vital to remember that studying does not start at the point of taking major exams. Like developing independence, it is an ongoing process. It starts when your children first have spellings to learn, or homework to do, and continues throughout their school life. The approach that you take to homework will help to determine how your child develops study skills. Nobody expects a six-year-old to manage to remember to do their homework, and do it entirely alone. Equally, their homework is for them, not for you. Your support and encouragement is important, but if you do it for them, the school will not know if they are struggling. It is important to find a balance, and to maintain it throughout their school career. There is more about this in our page on Supporting Formal Learning. It is important to develop a strategy for supporting studying that works for you and your child, but at the very least it needs:
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