Education is the key to shape student’s life, it helps to gain knowledge and skills but sometimes children suffer from stress, pressure, depression and anxiety. This is mainly due to work completion pressure or exam stress they feel from their school or colleges. However, there are a range of measures that could be implemented to resolve the issue of academic pressure.
One of the causes of stress and anxiety is fear of failure. Failing fear came into student by achieving low grades in exams or by de-motived from other people, this leads to overthinking, less sleep and increase mental pressure. Another cause is high expectations of parents and society towards their child. Sometimes, by gaining less score parents disappoint and force their child to study more indirectly put burden to achieve top grades. In addition, parents start comparing their child with other student who is topper. However, deadline to submit assignments, projects and workload from school or colleges makes student’s mind stressful.
However, there are number of ways to minimize the academic pressure and make child feel free. Firstly, do not talk negative when student score less, encourage by telling them that failure is a part of learning, growing and experiencing things. Person who know the feeling of failure can able to handle any type of situation because they know how to come out from that .Secondly ,parents should support their child to perform well in academics by helping them to make a proper study plan, everyday to-do lists and create a peaceful environment of house to improve concentration while studying. Futhermore, Learn time management skills to complete the task on time and do outdoor activities to reduce stress.
In conclusion, lack of proper guidance, fear of fall down and more expectation from parents is mainly the reason why student struggle with depression and this leads to less productivity and decrease in new innovations. Not only parents can support their child to reduce mental stress, but also schools or colleges can introduce many ways to make student feel happy such as, by providing them music sessions to calm their mind or sports events.