Study Tips

Help your Teen do well in their exams

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Helping your child succeed based on facts.

How can one report help you child succeed at school.

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Help you child create a Study System

Helping your child read their potential.

Here is a video on how to create a study system with your child – made with my magic pen The audio takes a while to kick in but it is there

Last minute exam stress can be very difficult to deal with especially for teenagers.

What can you do as a Parent to help?

I have split this down into four areas, the three-week panic, the three-day panic, three- hours panic and three-minutes panic. It seems to be that that’s how it works.
Three-week panic is obviously the one that’s going to set in first. What you can do with this is set your teenager a couple of questions, or ask the school to, about topics they know. What you’re trying to do is build up their confidence.

Three-day panic is definitely going to set in. I get them to look over the things they said they half-knew at the beginning. Get them to look over them, because they’ll realize how far they’ve come. They’ll realize that, “I don’t half-know this anymore. I know it.” Help them see if they can find the links between things that they half-know and know.

Three-hour panic, the best thing is give them something to study that they know well. It’s going to raise their confidence up.

Three-minute panic, basically you have to tell them to relax and breathe. It’s going to help them just before they go into the exam rooms. I remember specifically being sick before my biology exam. We must help them deal with it. “Okay, you sit down, feel the chair. Breathe. Center yourself.” I know these aren’t words that we use a lot with our children, but we need to start so they can deal with this, cope. If there is any massive panic, whatever it is, help your teenager go back to something that they know. It’s going to raise their confidence.

As a Parent what can you do to give your child the best chance with the exams?

Helping your child study smarter.

When parents ask me to coach their teenagers they inevitably want their child’s school grades to improve and seem a little shocked when I say, “Yes, that’s easy.”

Like Susan, who sent her 13-year-old to me. Grace was doing OK at school, however her parents wanted to get her into a better school and to do that her grades needed to improve. Grace was enrolled in one of my coaching programmes and by the end of the programme her predicted C grades had become A and B, with a 100% pass rate in science a previously disliked subject.

How did we do it?

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Teens, Dads and Study

Why Dads are important when it comes to study.

I do think we are missing a gem when it comes to helping our teenagers study and pass exams. That gem is the fathers and the important role they can play. In my experience, Dads tend only to get wheeled in if things are going wrong or some kind of reward/punishment needs to be issued. Now I know that is not the same in every house and I am speaking in generalist terms here. However, over and over again in the many families I have worked with, we are not using fathers to their full potential. And I know some of these statements are very stereotypical and they may put the feminine and masculine movement back years, however I think sometimes you just need to say what is – make of it what you will.

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