And just this weekend my 9 year old started crying out of nowhere because she was feeling stressed about the upcoming end of year examinations. We talked it out and she said, “I know a good education is important and I’m just afraid of not doing well in my exams.”
Wherever she learnt to correlate those two ideas - it wasn’t at home.
And just this weekend my 9 year old started crying out of nowhere because she was feeling stressed about the upcoming end of year examinations. We talked it out and she said, “I know a good education is important and I’m just afraid of not doing well in my exams.”
Wherever she learnt to correlate those two ideas - it wasn’t at home.
When the message is communicated every day in a myriad of ways, parents really have a job cut out for them to counter it.