Teenage Troubles
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Hi Belinda
Know just how you feel
Been through the starting A level trauma once - he is off to Cambridge this week so it came right in the end! - and now doing it again with No.2.
Think it takes most of them a while to adjust to different way of working & the big jump in the standard required.
Mine also adjusting to a different environment.
I'm the world's worst but do think we just need to 'hang on in there', try to keep lines of communication open and provide as much stability at home as is possible - they seem so grown up much of the time but I put alot of the behaviour down to insecurity - still children really
If there is no sign of improvement by November might be worth a chat with school (if they don't have an official parent consultation arranged)?
(Also worth remembering that new AS/A2 syllabus started this year so maybe that teachers are finding their feet as well?)
Be thinking of you
Know just how you feel
Been through the starting A level trauma once - he is off to Cambridge this week so it came right in the end! - and now doing it again with No.2.
Think it takes most of them a while to adjust to different way of working & the big jump in the standard required.
Mine also adjusting to a different environment.
I'm the world's worst but do think we just need to 'hang on in there', try to keep lines of communication open and provide as much stability at home as is possible - they seem so grown up much of the time but I put alot of the behaviour down to insecurity - still children really
If there is no sign of improvement by November might be worth a chat with school (if they don't have an official parent consultation arranged)?
(Also worth remembering that new AS/A2 syllabus started this year so maybe that teachers are finding their feet as well?)
Be thinking of you