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High school student are one of the busiest people in the world. This people study, takes classes, join school activities, and socialize. They have a lot of work in school and at home.
Being organized is essential in high school students. If you are a high school student, it may seem like you never have enough time to finish all your work in a day. You may feel that you are always running out of time and all you do is study and never get enough time with your friends and family.
You often wish that there should be more time in one day to enable you to finish all your work with extra time to hang out with your family and friends and start again tomorrow.
However, everything you need to accomplish in one day is possible if you are organized and plan everything you do in a day.
Here are some tips for you to follow to make high school life easier and have extra time for you are your friends and family:
Set goals everyday ? Before you sleep, list down all the things you want to accomplish on the next day. This will help you to know what you are going to do and avoid doing unimportant tasks. With a “to do” list, you will get everything done more efficiently and faster.
Prioritize your list of goals ? After you made your “to do” list, try to prioritize the goals you want to achieve. Put your most important goal in life on top of your priority and your least important goals to down below on the list.
It is also important that you should be realistic on your list, try to base your list on what you need to achieve and not on what you want to achieve. If you have a long-term priority, it is probably best that you put it on the bottom of your list; you can always work on that tomorrow.
Use your spare time ? You may not notice it but you have lots of spare time as a high school student. Try to add up the minutes of the school bus ride to school and the school bus ride back home.
You can use these times to study and do your homework. By doing this, you will get an idea on what you need to do on your homework when you get home. This allows you to finish your homework faster and have extra time for other things.
Working student ? If you are a high school student and have a part time job, you can use your rest periods to do your homework or study. It is also ok to say no if your boss asks you to work on a school night and you have an important exam the next day. Tell him or her that you have to study for the exam.
Remember, work is not your number one priority as of now, it is only a part time job and the most important thing for a high school student is studying and passing the exams.
Finding the right time ? Students have the “right time” to study. Students have specific time to study more efficiently. For example, you solved your math problems well on afternoons; do not wait until nighttime to it, then. When your mood shifts immediately start solving math problems as much as you can before you lose interest.
Taking notes ? Writing down important notes is an effective way to study. It is much better than just plain reading. Writing down notes has an effect on your mind. You can understand the topic more effectively and memorize it more effectively than by just reading.
It is also important that you review your notes as your teacher might give a pop quiz on the next day. Reviewing your notes will help you be more prepared for the pop quizzes that your teacher may suddenly give.
Get enough sleep ? Trying to stress yourself out studying when you are supposed to be sleeping can bring ineffective results and unwelcome health problems.
If you need to sleep you have to sleep, do not force yourself to study if you cannot effectively study. If you try to study in this situation, you will most likely waste your time.
Keep your goals realistic ? Trying to accomplish unrealistic goals can often result in failure and frustration.
Set goals that is difficult but achievable. Setting realistic goals that is difficult and achieving it can give you self-worth and be proud on your achievements.
As children develop their talents in school, sports and the arts, they explore new areas about themselves and the world. While children have the ability to master the demands of certain situations they encounter when developing their talents, they may struggle to cope with certain types of stress.
For all of us, stress is our natural mental and physical reaction to changes and events to prepare us to address them directly or avoid them. Some children have the personality and relationships needed to cope with stress so it motivates instead of deflates them. Other children, however, do not have the coping skills and support needed to put stress into perspective and use methods to manage it well.
Parents are children’s first line of support for helping them cope with stress. Parents can either help children learn coping skills or add to children’s stress by not providing the support needed. The following are four tips parents can use to help children learn how to cope with the stress they experience in school, sports, and the arts.
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: What your behavior teaches your children about coping with stress
Children learn about themselves and the world by watching their parents react to different situations. If parents are anxious about something in their lives, they can transfer that same anxiety to their children through their words and actions. In order for parents to help their children learn how to cope with stress, they should first answer the following questions about themselves: What stresses me the most each day and how do I handle those situations? What example am I setting for my children about how stressed I become and how I handle it?
For instance, if your daughter comes home from school complaining about how a classmate mistreated her, do you get angry and start personally criticizing the student and the student’s family? As a parent, you feel the stress of your child being mistreated and may over-respond by attacking the student, teacher, parents, or family as a way of coping with the stress you feel. You go into attack mode while your child watches, listens, and learns from your example.
If you, on the other hand, calmly ask your child questions about what happened, condemned the other student’s poor behavior without making personal attacks, and teach your child methods to handle the situation, you are instructing her about how to stay centered and understanding during stressful times.
In order to help your children learn how to cope with stress, you need to look at how you experience and handle stress in your life as a parent, and consider what lessons you teach your children by your example. This self-reflection will help you better model the behaviors your children need to manage stress in healthy ways.
Stressful Moments: Knowing when your child becomes stressed
As your children age, their minds and bodies develop automatic patterns of reacting to different stressful situations throughout the day. For instance, when children have to go to practice in the afternoon, some of them will feel excited and physically energized while others feel nervous and overwhelmed. These reactions can be automatic ways of reacting to situations that are perceived to be stressful.
While it is important to know how children automatically react to stress, it is essential to first know when and in what situations they automatically feel the most stress throughout the day. There are usually specific situations, times of a day or week, or people that cause your children higher stress. By knowing these situations, you can help them learn important coping methods.
To discover the moments and/or people that typically cause your children stress, you need to conduct a little survey:
Step 1: At the end of each day, ask your children when they felt the most relaxed and positive in the morning. Then, have them describe the same happy moments that occurred in the afternoon and evening. For younger children, you may ask, “When did you have the most fun in the morning…in the afternoon…in the evening?” Find out the general time of day, who or what triggered the event, and the level of enjoyment (using a rating of “big or little fun,” or “high, medium, low”).
Step 2: After you discuss the fun, relaxing things your children experienced, you should ask “Did you feel angry, sad, or confused in the morning? If so, when?” Then ask about the afternoon and evening separately. Find out the general time of day, who or what triggered the event, and the level of stress they felt (use a rating method).
Step 3: After your conversation, you should record what your children told you on a piece of paper for each day with separate sections for morning, afternoon and evening.
Step 4: If you track the results for two weeks or more, you will see the pattern of when your children are relaxed and stressed throughout the day and week. You can use this information to determine ways to teach your children coping methods and provide the necessary family support.
While you may have to alter these steps to fit the personality and age of your children, you will find that it leads to open communications and builds support for the stress your children experience.
Inspire your Child to learn how to write
Writing assignments elicit more sighs and yawns more than other types of leaning assignments for a child, but it’s possible to allow children to like writing assignments by giving them practical assignments. For instance, you can get a child to write what he likes most about his/her toy; or to write a letter to a favorite relative as a way of keeping touch. You can also introduce the child to blogging online. If your child sees posts by other children, it is likely he will want to try writing his own topic. Pen pal letters also stimulate the child to learn how to write.
Inculcate a reading culture
It’s always god to teach your child how to read (appropriate materials please). But, you also need to take steps to ensure that the child does not have conditions that might hinder reading like visual problems or dyslexia. When you are home schooling, you will need to set a good example by reading for pleasure, and make sure that your child notices. Don’t pick reading materials that are too complicated for the child to comprehend, as this will lead to frustration. Computer games that have text in them are good for reading as they are for child development.
Learn to compromise
As to how much further you can go in insisting that your child performs a particular task for home schooling, there are no easy answers. Suppose your child wants to learn science and you had scheduled algebra, what do you do? You can change the schedule a bit and accommodate your child’s educational cravings; just ensure this is not often repeated and putting your foot down sometimes is necessary skill when teaching children. Home schooling does not necessary mean you follow your own schedule; you will need to be flexible.
You will want to ensure that your child’s education is at par with his peers’ learning at public/private schools. One way of doing this is getting your hands on a used or free curriculum which can help you have significant costs savings and will allow you to duplicate the curriculum that your child would receive in a traditional classroom setting. You can also pick inexpensive learning materials that are up for sale from a local library, or from numerous online stores.
If your child has refused a task, then a time off may be a good idea. Home schooling doesn’t have to be a battleground.
Sometimes a change is good than a rest
There are times that your child may not want to touch a book or is plainly bored. You may not have much success teaching such a child at that moment. But you may improve results significantly by simply changing the home school environment. You may proceed to a park or a restaurant or the park or to a close relative’s house. You can also simply change the schedule and go the extra curricular way; it works wonders.
