{"id":155569,"date":"2025-06-03T19:23:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T19:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/155569\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T19:23:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T19:23:15","slug":"how-to-help-your-teenager-through-exam-stress-without-making-it-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/155569\/","title":{"rendered":"How to help your teenager through exam stress without making it worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">With Junior and Leaving Certificate exams starting this week, many teenagers are struggling with anxiety and pressure. Wexford psychotherapist Nettie Bowie explains why social media comparisons and well-meaning parental comments can backfire &#8211; and shares practical ways to support your teen without adding to their stress.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"For many teens, exams are tied to identity, self-worth, and fears about the future.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ddb87f7b-89a7-4fc2-aea0-2abae5e43385.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">For many teens, exams are tied to identity, self-worth, and fears about the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">As a parent, it&#8217;s only natural to want to help your teenager through stressful times \u2013 especially during high-pressure periods like the Junior and Leaving Certificate exams. Understanding what contributes to their anxiety and knowing how to support them can make a real difference in how they cope, both emotionally and academically.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Exams often represent more than just academic assessment. For many teens, they are tied to identity, self-worth, and fears about the future. Pressure to succeed may stem from their own expectations, family hopes, peer comparisons, and increasingly, social media narratives about achievement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Junior and Leaving Certificate exams starting this week, many teenagers are struggling with anxiety and pressure. Wexford&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[105,66069,218,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-155569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-leaving-certificate","10":"tag-mental-health","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114621068440953594","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}