Parenting Tips: Are we choking our kids with academic pressure? – Times of India |
All children are expected to perform well academically, simply because society gives a lot of importance to academic brilliance. This spirals into parental pressure where children are pushed to the edge to get higher grades and build a more successful future. The whole thing is made into such a big deal that it puts a lot of mental pressure on them.The news about a class 9 student who recently died by suicide after jumping off the school building blamed her studies in the suicide note. Three days ago a UP student died by suicide after being denied to sit for exams due to non payment of fees. Dr. Sameer Malhotra, Director and Head - Department of Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences, Max Super Speciality Hospital, Saket, “Adolescence is a vulnerable and sensitive age of development with u...