Exam season is one of the most stressful periods in a teenager's life, and for parents, it can be just as difficult.
Supporting your teen during exams is not about adding pressure or control — it is about creating a calm, supportive environment where they feel heard, capable, and confident.
The desire to help is natural. The fear of making things worse is also very real. What many...
GCSEs occupy a peculiar place in the life of a family. For the student taking them, they are simultaneously enormously significant and only one step in a much longer journey. For parents watching from the sidelines, they can feel equally significant but with substantially less agency. Getting the balance right between support and pressure, presence and space, is genuinely difficult.
