Some schools are receiving the results of their “mocks” this week, so tread carefully around the teens in your family.  You don’t need the advice of a Life Coach to know that!

 

How do we find the right balance of things to say?  We want to encourage and support our kids, but we don’t want to be so soft on them that they don’t get to grips with the reality of facing the end of their school career and the beginning of the next phase of their development.  We’re all afraid that, by being too gentle on them, we may fail to help them cope with the normal disappointments and knocks that every life is prone to.

 

I tend to err on the side of stepping back and looking at the fact that life continues after exams, one way or the other.  The proof is that millions of people are doing it, and have done it for generations.  I can point to my parents and to myself and husband as the most immediate examples that, for good or bad, the end of school - while significant - is not the end of life as we know it.

 

This post is not a “How to understand your teens” or a “10 steps to guiding your children to success” because I don’t have the answers for you.  You have.  I am busy working my way through it for myself.  All I can suggest to you, from my own experience, is:

 

and remember - you, as the responsible adult, have seen many things come and go, so you can afford to be philosophical and know that - this too will pass!

 

If you have any comments to make, please do.