PARENTS -COMMON SENSE- PARLOUR : PRECIS

 

Anxiety about oral presentation is also quite common. You know what I tell students? '' Rehearse your speech. '' Parents, you can say things like this, too, Practise it : '' Son, you wouldn't believe how helpful practice is.''

I can prepare for you advanced topics, too. Let's say your child is exhausted ; he thinks he has a medical problem or maybe a sleep disorder. Consider telling him to go to bed earlier. Common sense is still allowed.

What if a roommate is too loud or too quiet, too messy or too neat? Advise your kid to talk to the roommate, to take the conversation to the problem's source.

The World Students Society thanks Mathilde Ross, a senior staff psychiatrist at Boston University Health Services.