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Helping your daughter cope with STUDY STRESS! & make decision

Helping your daughter cope with STUDY STRESS! & make decision. WANTED : PARENTS. Job Description : - Hours : Limitless - Time off : Virtually none - Payment : Usually none - Sick pay cover : none - Training : Minimal or near to none - Working Condition : No legal control

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Helping your daughter cope with STUDY STRESS! & make decision

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  1. Helping your daughter cope with STUDYSTRESS!& make decision

  2. WANTED : PARENTS Job Description : -Hours : Limitless -Time off : Virtually none -Payment : Usually none -Sick pay cover : none -Training : Minimal or near to none -Working Condition : No legal control -Skills required : Unlimited. Applicants should be willing to take over cooking, cleaning, washing, nursing, teaching taxi-driving, first aid, ironing, blame taking etc….. -Responsibilities : Enormous… THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEXT GENERATION!

  3. What is STRESS!!??

  4. WHAT IS STRESS? • Stress is our response to situations we perceive to be threatening or demanding • Stress can be dealt with however it is sometimes a challenge..

  5. TYPES OF STRESS? • Eustress is the positive stress which motivates our everyday actions • Distress can be defined as “a real or imagined imbalance between the demands on the individual or family and the individual’s or family’s ability to meet those demands.”

  6. Level of PERFORMANCE Level of STRESS Low High OPTIMAL

  7. SOURCES OF STRESS • School • Family • Friends (peer pressure) • Self • Environment

  8. SIGNS OF STRESS • Physical • Emotional • Mental • Behavioural

  9. TIPS FOR STRESS MANAGEMENT(5-A METHOD IN STRESS MANAGEMENT) • Awareness of stress and its effects • Analysis of own level of stress • Accountability • Acceptance of self and one’s limitations • Adaptability

  10. Helping your child Cope with Stress Three roles parents can play to help your child cope with Stress • Coach • -Know your child’s learning ability and style • -Quality revision • -Conducive learning environment • -Work out a revision time table • -Be realistic with your expectation • -Interact and communicate with your child

  11. Helping your child Cope with Stress • Cheerleader • Motivating your child through • -Affirmation : recognise effort • -Praise • -Reward • -Encouragement

  12. Helping your child Cope with Stress • “Counsellor” • -Allow failure • -Stand by your child : Be there for them • -Focus on their strength : Do not compare • -Problem solve with child

  13. Useful Websites • http://stress.about.com/od/studentstress/ht/schoolstress.html • http://www.twu.edu/o-sl/counseling/SH007.html • http://yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com/stress?ivNPA=1&sky=ggl|hco|wb|stress|PPCA3BEa|c

  14. Quotable quotes Love is either conditional or unconditional. If it is attached with condition, it is not really love, it is just merely offering AN EXCHANGE

  15. Quotable Quotes You cannot please your kids all the time. You have to be prepared for your kids to misunderstand you and dislike you at times.

  16. CONCLUSION It takes the right amount of tension in the strings of a violin to produce good music; if its too much tension, it will snap! Allow the stress to bring out the best in you!

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