Studies show that 50% of parents suffer from chest pains, headaches, insomnia and anxiety while their kids are writing exams. OK, that\u2019s not true but if those studies were carried out, I\u2019d be one of those 50%. Each year I coax myself into not stressing about exams; failure is part of success they say; it\u2019s their lives right, they can deal with the consequences of not studying.\u00a0 And anyway, how does my stressing about exams help anyone?\u00a0 If anything, I think I make matters worse by trying to set mock exams for each child, which means I need to learn all the study material for grade 5 and 7 which means I end up having nightmares about mitochondria, electrons, BODMAS and Abraham Maslow.<\/p>\n
So I\u2019ve come up with a few ideas of things parents can do to ease the anxiety of exams, I mean, for themselves.\u00a0 Because if we\u2019re honest, the kids have a great way of handling the stress of writing exams.<\/p>\n
Come to think of it, even though my kids have each other, they always need to have friends over so why shouldn’t it be the same with writing exams. Maybe a study centre is a good idea, call it The Concentration Camp. Parents can send their kids to the centre where they will study hard, they\u2019ll be cared for by qualified childminders that have a Degree in Patience, have breaks with friends, group discussions and xBox every 4 hours. \u00a0Speaking of which, perhaps schools could include an exam on useless YouTube videos and Fortnite just to bring kids\u2019 averages up and to, you know, stay relevant.<\/p>\n
And on a serious note, there is none. The only way I can stay relatively sane during the exams is to see the lighter side of it. There\u2019s no way I\u2019m about to stop stressing and as my kids get older, it gets worse.<\/p>\n
This article was originally written for Jozikids by Fatima Kazee in 2018.<\/em><\/p>\n Note: If you enjoyed this article, and would like to stay updated with more, you can:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Studies show that 50% of parents suffer from chest pains, headaches, insomnia and anxiety during their kids\u2019 exams. OK, that\u2019s not true but if those studies were carried out, I\u2019d be one of those 50%. Each year I coax myself into not stressing; failure is part of success they say; it\u2019s their lives right, they can deal with the consequences of not studying. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":17775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[214,124,343],"class_list":["post-17771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exams","tag-exam-stress","tag-parenting","tag-writing-exams"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n