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If you're a parent of a child who is just starting university and your
invested in their education, it can be a very daunting experience.
The workload can be quite substantial and they can become stressed
at the amount of work that they need to complete. It’s important not to become
over invested in your student’s work, by asking them and adding to their stress:
‘When's your assignment due?’ and ‘Have you got an exam?’
but it's important just to be supportive and to be there for your student, and
there's a lot of new terminology that you'll hear your child use, like:
Lecturers, and Unit Coordinators,
and tutorials. so you can,
you can keep the lines of communication open by asking them the difference
between those things. ‘How is your lecture?’ ‘How is your day?’
Just keep communicating with them, and encourage them. If they come home and
they’re overly stressed
you could perhaps have already looked at the website
and seen that there is
Workshops for mathematics skills, Workshops for scientific literacy skills
Academic writing skills, How to overcome nerves for exams.
So there's many many resources that are available to the students that
perhaps you could umm,
look into for them, and that's the way that you could be supportive.
More practical ways to be supportive would be just to,…
if they're doing an all nighter or if they’re studying for an exam,
make them their favourite meal,
take them in a cup of tea, and celebrate once they’ve finished an assignment,
or they’ve handed it in, or they've done an exam.
Another way you could also support them is encourage them to keep up with their
sports or their social activities – to a certain degree.
You don’t want to encourage them to be out every night, but a fantastic way
to alleviate their stress would be
to exercise or to do.. keep up with the team work or the team
sporting activities that they've been going to.
So my hint or tip would be: to be supportive, to communicate,
and to celebrate their achievements, and I think the proudest moment
for a parent would be
at that graduation ceremony, which I've experienced, and UWS does so well,
is to see your child walk across that stage at graduation,
and you know exactly what they've, what they've gone through to get to that point.
It’s one of the proudest moments, as a parent,
that you’ll ever experience. It’s absolutely wonderful
and University of Western Sydney
does the graduation ceremony absolutely fantastic.
It's a, it's a beautiful, wonderful day.
Hints and tips on what works. So don't nag even if you feel you want to.
Trust that they are organised and know when things are due.
Choose the right time to ask questions -
not when they appear to be stressed or overwhelmed.
as you don't want to add to their stress. Encourage them to exercise
or socialise with friends - within reason!