{"id":12512,"date":"2017-05-29T12:35:54","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T07:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/?p=12512"},"modified":"2017-05-29T13:03:56","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T07:33:56","slug":"open-letter-to-parents-exam-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/open-letter-to-parents-exam-stress.html","title":{"rendered":"Children Write An Open Letter To Parents About Exam Stress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 20px 5px 20px 5px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px; background-color: #f9f9f9; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-align: center; font-size: 15px;\"><b>In 2006, the most recent year for which official figures are available, nearly <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">5,857 students &#8211; or 16 a day<\/span> &#8211; have <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">killed<\/span> themselves due to <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">exam stress<\/span>.<\/b><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Suicidal tendencies among students have increased due to the burden of expectations from parents along with academic pressure. The over pressuring of examinations is a leading cause of depression in students. Parents, usually busy resourcing financial expectations do not realise the problems of their children. Children need moral support during examinations but they seldom find it when their parents are working.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Watch the video below which has a very important message to all parents about<\/span><b> #ReleaseThePressure<\/b><br \/>\n<iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z7NikXE0T8M\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you are unable to handle the stress of examinations, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourdost.com\/talkItOut?yd_source=YDBlog&amp;yd_medium=InternalLinking&amp;yd_content=OpenLetterToParentsAboutExamStress_campaign=BlogPostPromotion\">Talk to the Experts<\/a> at YourDOST to get tips and guidance to overcome it.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2006, the most recent year for which official figures are available, nearly 5,857 students &#8211; or 16 a day &#8211; have killed themselves due to exam stress. Suicidal tendencies among students have increased due to the burden of expectations from parents along with academic pressure. The over pressuring of examinations is a leading cause [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exam-related-stress","category-student-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}