A Level time is extremely stressful for students and hence parents.
It’s all about studying, exam results, selecting a short list of colleges or universities. Select a first choice, choose the 2nd insurance choice. No pressure from the universities (?), some do not guarantee accommodation on campus if selected as 2nd choice.
Organising student finance, completing the PN1, open a student bank account, revise, take exams, wait for the dreaded day of the results. Add to that the teenager effect... what do you expect!
It must be the most stressful year of a student's life. So, who are the targets on which the stress is vented ... Parents! You will always say the wrong thing, do the wrong thing, and be in the wrong; whether it is trying to be supportive or helping test the revision notes.
Other parents say "yes we remember that ... just hang in there!" But they don't warn you in advance. Well, it can be a bit like hell, building through the AS year but it only really lasts about 18 months. It really is a case of accepting you are wrong and you are in the wrong but really do just hang in there, it is surely worth it ... in the end!
It’s all about studying, exam results, selecting a short list of colleges or universities. Select a first choice, choose the 2nd insurance choice. No pressure from the universities (?), some do not guarantee accommodation on campus if selected as 2nd choice.
Organising student finance, completing the PN1, open a student bank account, revise, take exams, wait for the dreaded day of the results. Add to that the teenager effect... what do you expect!
It must be the most stressful year of a student's life. So, who are the targets on which the stress is vented ... Parents! You will always say the wrong thing, do the wrong thing, and be in the wrong; whether it is trying to be supportive or helping test the revision notes.
Other parents say "yes we remember that ... just hang in there!" But they don't warn you in advance. Well, it can be a bit like hell, building through the AS year but it only really lasts about 18 months. It really is a case of accepting you are wrong and you are in the wrong but really do just hang in there, it is surely worth it ... in the end!
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