Parents are quite capable of supporting their child during periods of fatigue and high stress. To do this, you don’t need to plan something grandiose, just follow simple rules every day.

The child is tired of studying. Go for a walk after studying

In many families, it is customary to welcome a child home from school. Make the most of this time. Instead of going straight home, let your child run around in the schoolyard or playground. Do you need to go by bus? Try walking for at least two or three stops. This, by the way, is useful not only from the point of view of psychological relief, but also as a disease prevention: many viruses are heat-loving, and if a child suddenly catches one of them at school, there is a chance that during a walk the virus will simply die before cause harm to health.

The child is tired of studying. Dancing instead of chess

Has your child started homework? Make sure that he always takes breaks from studying and does not pore over notebooks for two hours. It’s best to come up with simple physical training exercises: five somersaults after math, squats after Russian. After lessons, do easy for baby a massage or even a soak in the bath - this will relieve muscle tension and calm you down. If a child has become worse able to cope even with the main program, it makes sense to think about whether he currently needs an additional one. Perhaps it’s worth giving up studying the second one at least for a while foreign language or chess sections. Don’t be afraid to miss something: as soon as the child has rested, he will have new strength the energy of boldness will manifest itself, and he will quickly make up for lost time! But there is no need to give up sports activities like swimming or dancing: they will only benefit your child now.

The child is tired of studying. Mode first

Younger schoolchildren simply need a routine. This applies to getting up, doing homework, walking, eating and going to bed. General recommendations: try to ensure that your child finishes his lessons no later than a few hours before bedtime, provide him with a balanced diet of proteins, fats and carbohydrates, no excess with sweets, and also a full-fledged walk. It is better to go to sleep at night no later than 22.00, but when getting up in the morning you can make an indulgence - let your child sleep as much as he wants.

The child is tired of studying. Out of town on weekends

A student who suffers from overwork should not sit for hours in front of the TV or computer. If he is left alone at home during the day, install special programs on your computer that allow you to limit the time you spend in virtual reality. Special attention- shared leisure time. No trips to the mall on weekends. As long as the weather permits, go skiing or downhill with the whole family, go to the skating rink or just for a walk in the park. How long have you been in the snowy forest? In good weather, you can go out for a winter picnic, make a fire, and have a barbecue. If this option seems extreme, just go out of town - to a horse farm or country estate. A change of scenery and new experiences will benefit both adults and children.

It's corny, but true. Get up at the same time, and under no circumstances go to bed later than 12. I know it’s difficult, but this will really help. And on weekends, don’t let yourself sleep for twelve hours either. Personally, for me it was a six-day period, and all the Olympiads were on weekends, so I didn’t have much of a choice, but if I missed a day, I didn’t go at all.

Also here - if possible, include an hour of sleep during the day. After school and before tutors, for example. He will seriously provide the strength that is lacking.

Normal food, normal breakfast, lunch and dinner are already as they are. But the first two doses definitely have to be there, otherwise you simply won’t be able to crawl to the courses at seven o’clock in the evening. Drink vitamins. Take care of yourself: in the evening, if you have a runny nose, immediately take a steam bath and drink milk. It’s simple, but it’s really not done by default (“okay, it’ll go away on its own” won’t work).

3) Plan

Make a schedule and try to follow it. Try to move courses/tutors so that it is convenient to travel there and so that the load is even. With proper planning, time is saved. Keep a diary, it will immediately show where you have free time.

4) Optimize

Most people spend at least an hour and a half a day on the road. For example, if you are taking English, listen to English radio on the subway instead of music, and memorize arguments for an essay in Russian on the bus. Every day you wait half an hour for an extra lesson? Take and solve a dozen numbers, note how much time it took.

5) Set priorities

Give up the excess. If you are taking chemistry and biology, then there is probably no need for social studies. Well, come up and tell the teacher that this is it, but I will come once every three weeks, please tell me when the tests are. If administrative problems arise, create an individual lesson plan, this is available almost everywhere. After all, institutes are accepted based on the Unified State Exam, and not on diplomas, which no one will ever look at (I heard about a competition for certificates, but, you must admit, they really won’t open it if you have 390 points in total). In this way, you will take away half of your school load and unnecessary lessons. Yes, teachers will appear, but that is their problem. Your goal is to pass the exam, all this nonsense shouldn't bother you. There will be a C in a non-core subject - adored, but in a year you won’t even remember.

6) Get inspired

This is difficult, but I was motivated by the thought that “there are three weeks left before the holidays.” And so on from point to point. Reward yourself. I wrote a sample (it doesn’t matter whether it’s good or bad, you should please yourself in any case) - bought new shoes/jeans/whatever you want. Talk to your friends - you are probably the same age - praise each other, feel sorry for each other and love as much as you can. It’s stupid, perhaps, but we are now in our last year with friends, we all have work, studies, exams, internships and so on; We have lunch together every day, tell each other how our day went, whine, complain, etc. - and it’s really easier for us. This is half an hour a day, they definitely exist, but they are really needed to experience emotions. Listen to each other, complain, cry, whine - the main thing is that every thought “how tired I am” is not clogged with self-pity inside, but spills out into a stream of mutual understanding.

Periodically tell yourself that people have climbed Everest and conquered Siberia, and that you are no worse. Hang some tunes on the wall, write your favorite quote on your diary, put it on your screensaver - it doesn’t matter what. If stories about great people inspire you, spend 10 minutes a day reading one biography.

It doesn’t matter how, but be inspired. This is also work - to force yourself to believe in the confidence that is not there. But this work will be rewarded with results, because quantity always turns into quality :)

7) Rest!

Don't forget about unloading. If you prepare really intensively and devote all your time to it, then this can happen. Don’t forget that it’s not rubber, that you need time to get what you want. You can free up the same time a week, for example, the second half of Sunday is always free. Then, by the way, during the week you will be motivated by this thought about the second half of Sunday)

Already in the first year, students often feel disappointment and loss of strength. Similar emotional burnout“recruits” can be triggered by a lot of circumstances: an abundance of tasks, new team, “wrong” items and even comments from classmates on social networks. Not everyone can cope with their own harsh reaction to these situations.

As a result, by the senior year, such students master their specialty less well, and some of them drop out altogether. “Due to problems with adaptation, you can lose capable students with decent achievements,” noted Elena Kudryavtseva in the report “New educational opportunities and burnout of subjects educational process"*. Freshmen need help to integrate into university life. Studying them psychological characteristics will help prevent emotional exhaustion.

From a “burnt out” student to a bad professional

Emotional burnout (from the English “burn out” - burn out, burn out, run out of steam) manifests itself in a feeling of confusion, emptiness and powerlessness. The previous goals and values were disappointing, new ones have not yet emerged. In such a state, it is difficult to study and work, to become a specialist in your field. It can also lead to professional burnout, when a person loses interest in his specialty, noted Elena Kudryavtseva.

Those at risk include primarily doctors, teachers, social service employees, psychologists and managers. Representatives of these social professions work with people and their problems, which takes a lot of mental strength. Research on emotional burnout, in fact, began with a study of the well-being of social workers. American psychiatrist Herbert Freudenberger, after observing volunteers, first described emotional exhaustion syndrome in the 1970s. He also discovered a professional crisis in his “patients”.

Doctors, teachers, psychologists have the same nervous work. The pressure of other people's problems exhausts them. Representatives of these specialties need a reserve of emotional strength and stress resistance. If it is not there, then a person may “burn out” already at the stage of study. This often happens among students of social sciences due to the intense experience of “other people's negativity.”

Causes of emotional exhaustion

In adults, emotional burnout can be provoked by stressful and unloved work, conflicts with loved ones, disappointment in oneself, an ambitious desire to succeed in everything, etc. (see). More often, maximalists and perfectionists “burn out” because of their own approach to business.

Students have specific reasons emotional burnout. Among them is a large study load(including online courses and projects) and a very wide range of interactions (with teachers, fellow students, etc.). Elena Kudryavtseva also highlighted the risk of excessive communication on social networks, including for educational purposes. The student is constantly in the spotlight and sees comments about his actions. This also increases tension, the expert believes.

“The concentration of communications in the learning environment thickens the educational context,” the researcher added, and this “thickening” forms the basis of burnout.

How not to “burn out” from stress

You can relieve stress from studying different ways- for example, with the help of psychological training (see Social work specialists strive to standardize their feelings). You need to learn to regulate your own state of mind (see). It is useful to alternate types of activities - in addition to activities, there should also be interesting hobbies.

What helps students deal with emotional deficits:
teacher support. Their emotional stability has a good effect on students as well;
participation in scientific research, that is, active inclusion in the “academic context”. This helps students feel needed, experience the “taste” of science and the benefits of teamwork;
additional social activity, for example, participation in student government (this also helps young people understand their importance);
cohesion of the student group, sense of community.

How does burnout develop?

The first and fourth years turned out to be decisive for the well-being of students, the researcher found out. In the first year, half of the students do not show signs of emotional burnout (they are calm and open). At the same time, about a third have the first symptoms of this alarming condition. In the second year it increases - the situation “gets worse.” In the third year, the children’s sensations stabilize. And by the fourth year the plot resolves itself. “Some students get rid of emotional burnout, while others develop a negative state,” the expert explained.

Elena Kudryavtseva reflected changes in psychological well-being in students’ individual cards, which are updated once a year (see Appendix 1). Creating such maps allowed her to trace the “tracks” of emotional burnout among junior students. The “track” has three phases that gradually gain strength:
Voltage. A person experiences “psychotraumatic circumstances”, is dissatisfied with himself, is “caged”, and is alarmed.
Resistance. There is emotional and moral disorientation, and it is difficult for a person to fulfill professional duties.
Exhaustion. Emotional deficits develop and health problems arise.

Targeted support for problem students

Analysis of individual student cards showed:

The track of emotional burnout does not depend on the areas of training and educational opportunities of students. Both university and college students are frustrated;

Individual cards help you choose the best strategy for helping students - for example, not overdoing it with students who are behind. When demands increase, they may resist more actively. In general, it is necessary to take into account that “the stronger the student’s emotional burnout, the less constructive his reaction to any feedback,” the expert emphasized;
With the help of maps it is easier to predict the academic activity of students: involvement in different educational formats, responsibility for completing assignments and readiness for additional efforts. Long before the winter session, it becomes clear who among the first-year students is at risk of dropping out.

Ultimately, students' individual maps help explain their educational achievements and prevent dropout, the researcher concluded.

The study is based on observations of the psychological state of students at the Department of Management of the National Research University Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg (2015-2016), as well as on an analysis of the self-perceptions of pedagogical and managerial students studying at the Amur State University.

*The report was presented in High school economy at VII International conference Russian Association of Researchers higher education(RAIVO).
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In this article, I will be happy to recall my student days and share the experience of five long years. Dedicated to all students!

It’s a curious situation: there are millions of students in the country, most of them experience the same problems and difficulties year after year, and there is practically no information on how to deal with them on the Internet. A dozen pages found through Google enlighten students on how to properly prepare for exams and talk the teacher out of it – and that’s all! It’s as if student life is limited by exams... Rather, on the contrary, exams occupy a very insignificant place in a student’s life: “students live happily from session to session.”

(Although: I also managed to find a translated article of a different kind, stuffed with nonsense about And)

Therefore, it is simply necessary to write an article about how to achieve success at a university and, in general, how to ensure that five (for some, six) years of study do not go down the drain.

Let's get started.

Advice number zero. I’m starting from scratch, because the advice is addressed to school graduates and applicants. Usually, at the end of the 11th grade, schoolchildren begin to have a natural fever: to pass final exams (well, the Unified State Exam), to squeeze into university... The motto these days is “as long as you get in, it doesn’t matter where.” This is an extremely harmful and wrong approach. At the age of 17, few people think about the importance of choosing a place to study - but in vain, because it has a significant impact on the rest of their lives. Therefore, I suggest that applicants (if they read the article) answer several questions:

1. Why am I going to enter this university? .What do I expect from studying?

2. What will I do after university? How will the knowledge or connections I gained at this university help me in my studies?

3. Where would I go if I knew exactly what I would do?

4. Where should I go, given my answers to the previous three questions?

Tip number one. So, you entered the university, studied there for the first week, no longer confuse the names and patronymics of teachers and know where you can grab a piece between pairs. Wonderful! Now it's time to stop and think. For simplicity, I propose the questions again:

1. What has changed in my attitude towards this university? What new (and important) did I learn about him?

2. What can this university give me in terms of knowledge? How and where do its graduates find employment?

3. What can this university give me besides knowledge? Dating and connections? Experience in social activities? Start of a scientific career?

It is important that you answer these questions as early as possible and determine as honestly as possible the main thing: how studying here relates to yours. Very often, a student comes to the realization that he made a slight mistake when choosing a university or faculty. Very often he understands that his studies are futile. You shouldn't hide from such thoughts. You always need to be fully aware of the situation.

Tip number two. Your further actions depend on the answer to the questions in the previous paragraph. Here are some of the most likely paths:

Situation A: you understand that studying in this university can really give you enough practical and theoretical knowledge; in senior years, students undergo internships and internships in good organizations and it definitely makes sense to study here. Well, then everything is simple. Choose the subjects that you will need for your job after graduation and understand them well. On the rest, pay exactly as much attention as necessary so that there are no unnecessary “tails”.

Situation B: everything is exactly the opposite.

— if you haven’t spent much time (you discovered that the university is not suitable for you in your first year), go to another one. It's better to lose a year than 5.

- if a lot of time has passed, then perhaps it would not be very wise to change the place of study.

Tip number three. What to do if the university is not suitable for you, and it’s too late to change?

At one time (unfortunately, it was already in the 4th year...) I outlined the following program of action for myself:

1. Minimize wastage of time at university.

2. Squeeze everything you can out of your home university, since you can’t get good knowledge.

3. Forget that I am a student and find another, more useful business, to which I will devote maximum time and effort.

4. Study at the university as a training in acumen (passing exams without preparation), (persuading particularly evil teachers to let you out of a class) and (sit in compulsory classes).

All this, in principle, worked out well for me. Here are some examples.

Minimizing wasted time:

at the beginning of the semester, I made a rating of teachers - who could skip how long without consequences - and skipped accordingly;
Having caught a slight cold, I ran to the clinic, made tired eyes and complained of weakness - and in the end received the coveted certificate, allowing me to go about my business for a week or two;
Unlike lectures, I attended seminars carefully and did not shut up during them - which is quite simple with some skill. The “active student” lever clicked in the teachers’ heads and pressing the “set the machine” button became as easy as shelling pears;
in my fifth year (late, late...) I got a little involved in, as they call it now, social activities– another excellent excuse has appeared for all occasions.

Getting everything you can out of the university:

an increased scholarship – of course (the machines and a beautiful record book helped);
trip to the south;
dating and connections.

Over the last two years, I also worked in 6-7 places, grabbed a dozen certificates and diplomas in various competitions outside the university, managed to start (and fail, which is natural) my own business project, as well as “pump up” my communication and communication skills. speak publicly, manage time. The only thing I regret is that I started playing truant too late and was an exemplary student for too long. I wish I could start in the second year! Eh!

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Why do schoolchildren get so tired?

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More than once during my school years I had the thought that I was sick with something serious. No, I didn’t think so in order to scare my parents and not go to school. I had these thoughts because I felt tired almost every day. Very tired.

Now this has become a common idea - schoolchildren are overloaded, their health is at risk, the number of lessons and homework needs to be reduced. Do you know? No, don't. It's not about lessons or homework.

If you remember your school years, then this strange thing becomes clear: being very tired day after day during the quarter, I quite easily and without fatigue coped with a comparable, or even greater load during the holidays.

A typical school day in high school is 7-8 lessons at school plus 2 hours of homework at home. And by nightfall I had no strength at all. I wanted to bury myself in the pillow and cry from fatigue and self-pity. But the holidays came and a miracle happened! I could diligently study the same mathematics for 10 or 12 hours a day in order to catch up or work on what was not working out, but by the night I did not feel squeezed like a lemon. Why?

I talked about this topic with my former classmates and current classmates in college and became convinced that the situation I described above was not a consequence of my individual characteristics, but a very common thing.

Noise level

The school is very noisy. Of course, we get used to it and don’t even really notice this constant noise during breaks, but it affects our performance. It’s not without reason that people who work in production are recommended to wear muffling headphones and consider such work to be harmful. Here's a typical school day. 15 minutes before the first lesson and then 7 breaks of 10-20 minutes, only 2 hours a day of existence in very noisy corridors. Students are not allowed to enter the classrooms because they are ventilated. There are 800 people in the school corridors at the same time. Even if they just talk and don’t scream, yell, scream and laugh, it will still be noisy. Where have you seen schoolchildren who don’t yell and scream during breaks?

Stress level

“Will they ask or won’t they ask?”, “Today is the test, what if it’s a difficult option?”, “Lenka said something nasty about me again, look how they’re all laughing,” “Tamara Petrovna in bad mood, he’ll yell again, and I’m on the first desk, so it’ll come at me,” “Igor runs into the new guy again. Intercede? Then I'll get it too. Don't react? It’s so disgusting”, “Where is my physics notebook?! Forgot it at home? Or did you leave it somewhere? Oh!" well, etc. How many stressful moments happen in one school day? Yes, dozens! Yes, these are all little things, but little things that cause an emotional response, sometimes even a surge of adrenaline. And when it’s like this every day, it’s clear that after a week you’re so tired that you want to rub the thermometer and get sick at home for at least three days.

Abrupt switching

You are sitting in a literature lesson. Olga Vladimirovna talks about Chekhov, we discuss “The Cherry Orchard”, argue, give quotes as evidence, someone defends Lopakhin, someone feels sorry for Ranevskaya, the lines of an essay are already forming in your head, which you are already eager to write... And suddenly the phone rings . “That’s it, guys, we’ll finish at the next lesson on Friday.”

And you go to chemistry. And during the first 10 minutes of the lesson you make every effort to get out of the cherry orchard, to stop hearing the blows of the ax and begin to somehow get into what the teacher is talking about. And exactly at the moment when you are completely immersed in the topic, and even the problem seems to have begun to be solved, the bell rings again. And so 7-8 times a day. Every day.

And if you come to mathematics after a physical education lesson, then you don’t even try to understand what is being discussed - it’s useless. The brain begins to function normally only towards the end of the lesson.

And these constant swings, when you either understand or don’t understand, when you are either in a cherry orchard or up to your ears in logarithms, they are also exhausting. And what remains in your head is a mess that in the evening you have to disassemble into its constituent parts and put them on shelves.

They can tell me that they have always taught this way, and recently the children have not started shouting louder, the teachers have not called to the blackboard more often, and the lessons have not become shorter. Yes, that's all true. But 20-30-50 years ago there was no such information field in which we are constantly immersed. To our school noise, to our school stress and abrupt switching, there is added a huge amount of information that we receive from the Internet on a daily basis. And we cannot help but receive it, because this is the requirement of today - to be informed, to be on topic, to eat statuses, tweets, posts, comments and news with a big spoon. This is something that you can no longer refuse.

I don't know how right I am in my assumptions. Now I'm in college, where there are no small children, so there is no noise, where teachers see us as adults, so there are very few moments of stress, where we don't have classes, but classes that last an hour and a half, so there are no sudden switches. And although our subjects are serious, the requirements in college are high, and there is a lot of homework, I am much less tired. And in the evenings I don’t want to cry into my pillow from fatigue and self-pity.

I dare to suggest that teachers feel constant fatigue for the same reasons. We graduated for 11 years and left, but they work like this all their lives. One can only sympathize.

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Thank you! Excellent analysis. I completely agree with you. Although homework has now become not only more voluminous, but also... more stupid! There is no clear structure, and teachers themselves do not see goals and objectives. Or rather, there is only one task - to cram it in! The pace has increased presentation of information, and children’s ability to assimilate, as you correctly noted, has decreased due to additional external influences! So we are pushing ourselves and the children.

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Well, a smart teacher probably won’t have stupid assignments.
And the task of “squeezing in” is, in principle, impossible. Moreover, a teacher should not simply “give information”.

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I’m talking about practice. About what I observe and listen to every day in the teacher’s room. Despite any innovations, the situation at school does not change. They push it in with tutors in mind, and they don’t even hide it.

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Student fatigue is not only a consequence of unreasonable organization schooling, it is also the reason for the student’s gradual refusal to study in general, not only at school.
I disagree with the author on only one thing.
Not all children get tired at school, but only those who still come to school to study. Anyone who no longer faces such a task is fine, especially now that teachers have stopped being meticulous and are not trying to reach every student. But this only proves the author’s idea that the reason for fatigue is in the organization of studies. And not only fatigue, but also illness.
My eldest son was unable to complete first grade. All year he studied for a week and was treated for a month. When the teacher said in April that she would keep him for a second year, my wife and I took our child out of school. Over the summer we studied the program ourselves primary school, analyzed the available educational materials. We selected books on reading and the world around us; we didn’t find anything suitable on Russian language and mathematics, so we wrote and published our own. To consolidate the material, we bought ready-made workbooks. We stocked up on a dozen different dictionaries.
With the beginning school year We rented two classrooms in one of the schools, invited several more children who were also not doing well in school, and started studying. We used the Teaching Technology, which I talk a lot about at the Teachers’ Council, in which the student independently obtains knowledge from the textbook under the supervision and support of the teacher. My son did this for three years. Four lessons a day, 60 minutes each. During all this time I never got sick.
When it was time to return to fifth grade, the education department organized testing for him at one of the city schools. We were not allowed to take all four exams at once. Not allowed. Although each test took the child no more than 15 minutes. The commission members apologized: “You understand, we cannot give you all A’s because you did not study at school.” Interesting evaluation criteria.
When my son started going to school again, he was very surprised that during the lessons they did very few practical tasks. One or two, rarely three. He's used to doing 20-30.
And one more illustrative case. Once, in the fifth grade, the mother of my son’s classmate called my wife and said that her child came from school in tears, could not calm down, the teacher cursed and screamed very much in class. He asks how is ours? Ours didn’t say anything, and when asked, he calmly replied that the teacher had some problems today that were not related to her studies.
The conclusion is obvious. When a child studies a subject without an intermediary, at his own pace, and he succeeds, he is calm, he does not get tired or get sick, because he does not get upset. The child is self-determined; he manages his own studies and learns to manage his life.
You are absolutely right, Sophia. Something needs to change at school.

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- Andrey, you are right. Something needs to change at school. The number of students in the classes is already off the charts, about 35. What an individual approach there already is. I wish I could survive somehow.
  
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  A very interesting experience! I see that my son doesn’t go to school to study. He studies on the Internet, and this interesting information and practical skills, various crafts, ideas for inventions, which he implements with his hands! And at school he has friends and his favorite... choir chapel!:)