‘Parents put more pressure’

Dr Sridevi P. Thashnath, the Principal of Indian School Darsait, who has been appointed as the CBSE pre-exam psychological counsellor to provide counselling services to students and parents, confirmed that it is the parents who are more stressed out than the children.

“Out of every 10 cases, seven to eight calls come from the parents as their expectations are more so more counselling needs to be given to them rather than students,” she said.

She said parents are putting their children under too much pressure and some of the expec- tations of parents are unrealistic. “Some of them want their child to score 100 out of 100 and don’t want them to miss out on anything, but at the same time these parents cannot be blamed. With proper counselling it can be tackled,” she said.

“Children take stress and are apprehensive, but parents tend to go overboard. They are the ones who need to be counselled more than the children. At times, I have to spend half an hour just guiding a parent to not fret so much, as this can negatively impact the child, who otherwise might just be studying as much even in two hours,” she added. Around 1,500 students will appear for Class XII examinations from 11 Indian Schools in Oman while 2,300 students will sit for the Class X examinations from 14 Indian schools in Oman.

Ataullah Niazi, Senior Principal of Pakistan Schools in Oman, said that the parents are always worried more as there is too much competition in today’s world. “That is one of the reasons we organize one-on-one talk, group talk and even ask the parents to approach the schools if there are any problems,” he said.