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Thursday, February 02, 2006
tackling stress ll 1:07 PM ll

First, I want to say that I not stupid is an movie to show that parents should not put stress on their kids, not putting stress on them.

In Singapore, every student's faces stress. Based on the article, it shown that many students could not cope with the stress and do silly things. I think they are quite foolish and in a moment of rashness, they think committing suicide is the best solution.

As for me, or even all my classmates, we all face stress everyday, even though they feel stressful everyday, where we have loads of homework. We also see a cheerful smile from them, ingratiating with people and even joke in the class. Why are they having this kind of response? The rationale behind is they take stress as something good to them, e.g. motivation which motivates them to score well
So we should have a positive attitude towards stress, take stress as motivation to perform better academically

Students who have to cope with a lot of stress face a lot of problems. As a result, they become hypochondriacs, where their mind started to think nonsensically, thinking they are 'ill'. This time, parents enter the scene.

Parents should not put too much stress on their kids as these kids could not cope with the stress and became insane where they start to do silly things like committing suicide which is proven by the article. It stated that as many as 14,000 students went to see a psychiatrist.

Instead of putting more stress on their kids, parents should spend more time with their kids; having a one to one heart talk with each other may help the kids to cope better with stress. Parents could also be a friend to them, as an identity of a friend instead of a parent may have a good time interacting with each other, thus, it relieve the stress of the kids.

Singapore, having the world class education system definitely has high expectations of the students. Loads of homework and assignments come rolling in where students could not cope with it. Instead of giving more homework, they should be given more freedom to relax and enjoy.
The suggestions that is provided could put aside the word 'STRESS'
on their mind.

Students facing stress could vent out their stress on sports, games and etc. one example is squash. They could also talk to their friends about it where all of them could come up with a solution.

Anyway, doing silly things are not solving the problem; they are refused to face reality.

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