My son is in 10th class. Exams are near but he does not study even single hour in whole day. He was the topper of his class of last year. His other classmates study whole day. He always sees movies and play videogame. I and my husband are worried about it. How we can help him.
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Sometimes due to excessive pressure of studies some students becomes uninterested in studies. Try to find out the reason of this behavior of your child. Talk to him and make him understand that if he will not take interest in studies, he would fail in exams. Take help of some good counselor. Encourage him to take regular exercise. This will improve his concentration and he would take interest in studies.
First you have to find the reason that why he is not taking interest in studies. There may be some problem to him in studies. Try to resolve that problem with the help of some good teacher. You should encourage him towards studies and make him clear that if he won’t prepare for his exams he may fail and this will harm his futures and career. Hope he would listen to you and will start giving attention to studies.
As you said your son is the topper in his previous year but it is a bit of concern for this year. So I would like to know that how about his performance in his recent exams, is he a topper or not, otherwise he might know his entire syllabus? Verify all these things and then come to a point regarding his behavior.
This is a kind of problem some of the students would do before the exams because the students don’t have good knowledge on the subject. So they don’t want to concentrate on the exam and in between they play and watch movies. Being a parent we have unusual experience. So work on the improvement of the subject and make him to right the exam confidentially.
I know how you are feeling because your son is not giving time to his studies. As you wrote he was the topper of his class. May be the reason of problem is his overconfidence. You have to tell your son that a persons study takes him to the top not his over confidence. Try to break his overconfidence and show him the reality.
Tell your son that these videogames and movies will not help him in his examination. He was the topper of last year, but to become the topper of this year he has to do studies and hard work. Try to smash his overconfidence and ask him to do studies. His study will take him to the top not his overconfidence.
This is a very crucial year for your child. If he does not study then you are responsible for this to a much larger extent. You must set some rules and regulations for your child. Time management is very important. Do not allow him to play video games as they make children violent.
Your child is not having any major problem. This can be treated easily with your help only. The first and the foremost thing that you as a parents have to take care off is to mange his time. Make a schedule for him. More time should be reserved for his studies and less time for video game and TV. Tell him how well his friends are studying. This will boost his interest towards studies also.
