Setting Your Child Up For Success - Child Psychology, Development And Teaching Tips

In this episode, Tim Dansie talks about the unique learning challenges that teenagers face.Learning can be difficult for teenagers for a number of reasons. Firstly, teenagers are asked to make major decisions about their future, even when they're unsure. "What will you study at uni?" "What career will you choose?" etc. Making such life decisions causing uncertainty and stress and that impacts learning. Also, around grade 8 and grade 9 in high school, school starts getting hard. Workloads increase, there are major assignments with deadlines and results really matter. Again, the need to learn these broad skillsAs parents, we need to know our teenagers, understand where they're at with their schooling, identify the issues and find a strategy to guide them through their studies. Tim shares his insights. About Tim Dansie:Tim is a registered Teacher and Psychologist. He spent 12 years working in schools as a Teacher / Psychologist before establishing his own private practice working with children, families, teacher