Are parents going overboard during exam time?

Question

Are parents going overboard during exam time?

Answer 1

I try to be supportive during exam week.   I let him forgo his 45 minute walk to school and I pay for a taxi to take him to school.   That will give him more time to study in the morning.   I let him stay up until 10 pm to do more studying (usual bedtime is 9 pm).    I even went so far as to let his brother do the typing part of a paper that he needed to turn in for school.    I also insist that everyone else keep the noise down and never interrupt when somebody else is studying for an exam.  I won't do the work for him though.    He has to do the studying on his own but I try to help him out.

What do you mean by going overboard?

ETA:   I have teenagers so my initial response was thinking of older kids.   This is the "Grade School" category.   If you aren't American that would refer to children from 5 to 11 years old.   When my kids were in grade school I would teach them how to study from a textbook.   A chapter is 30 pages long and there is so much information in there.   Before exam time,  I would help him study by looking at important facts in the chapter.   I would explain concepts to them that he wasn't quite understanding.    For the most part I was trying to teach them how to study when there appeared (to your average 10 year old)  to be so much information on the upcoming test.    I was a lot less involved in middle school years but grade school was when they learned how to study for big exams.    I wish someone did the same for me when I was little.   I would flunk Science and Social Studies tests because I would open up the textbook and get overwhelmed.   What may come easy for teenagers (studying from textbooks) can be mindboggling for an elementary school kid.

ETA: Are you asking about standardized tests or classroom exams?   With standardized tests, you either know it or you don't.    Kids don't know what questions will be on there.

Answer 2

Overboard in what way?  Where I am..they just had 2 weeks of standardized testing.  I got a little more strict about bedtime but that's it.

Answer 3

yeah, to some extent.

Answer 4

no. do as they say. they know everything you think you know.

Answer 5

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!