Two or three times a year it's that time again: the exam period is approaching! Stress among students and parents. How best to avoid this, read below 10 simple tips. Exercise, nutrition, planning, relaxation, sleep, order, schedules, reward, helping and regularity are the key without too much stress struggling through the exam period.

Mens sana in corpore sano: motion

The Romans knew already: a healthy mind needs a healthy body. So it is very important during the examination period fit and healthy. Exercise is the key. Is your student just a few times a week doing sports, then he or she certainly continue. Maybe not as often as normal, but at least once a week, when it is least disturbing for learning. Friday, Saturday or Sunday, for example, perfect moments. It breaks the monotony of learning, brings oxygen to the brains and take away the drowsiness. After one or two hours of sports, one feels fully fit again and ready to fly firmly against it. Is your student normally take the bus to go to the school? Now let him even take the bus: While walking to and from the bus and the bus resistance he or she as his or her mind, especially when other students are going the same way. After hours of studying each one can also best 10-minute stretch their legs. Just go through the garden or around the block with the dog.

Nutrition

Many students tend to jump quickly to play some inside so little time to waste. Some even go so far as to eat up their books. Certainly not! It is very important to have a nice, light and healthy eating during exams. No heavy fondue which takes hours, but an ordinary meal with lots of fresh fruits and vegetables. If vegetables could be sure spinach and legumes should be on the menu, like kiwi fruit and plums brought the crown. Besides the necessary vitamins they provide antioxidants and minerals. Seafood, are also sources of minerals, omega-3 and iodine. Good for brains. Chocolate, especially dark, then chocolate, delivers anti-oxidants and magnesium. Bread in turn creates complex sugars, so that the energy level is maintained. Three meals a day and two or three healthy snacks provide the necessary energy to the poor brains have to work so hard during that terrible week! Speak during meals also about something else than the exams. The meal is to relax. Tell some funny anecdotes or jokes like a match.

Planning

Good planning is half the battle. A clear plan of what and by when must the books and notebooks as the subject you need is already half the battle. What you can drop you can put aside. Make a pile of boxes to learn, in order of exams. Is the box passed then you can discard and stripes on the schedule. An entire satisfaction that the pile is getting smaller! Take one day and one week plan. How many hours per day should be studied, where breaks are provided, which breaks (meals, sports, hiking, TV ...), when it went to school there, when you go to sleep around, etc. Build a certain margin for unforeseen circumstances. Hang planning obvious to everyone in the kitchen on the refrigerator for example. So everyone knows when you're busy and when they may ask you something. Try your utmost to keep to that schedule, but pannikeer not agree anticipating a half hour.

Relaxation

Besides the sports entertainment is also important. Do not go with a full head and bed full of excitement, that's not good. Relax just before bedtime: a warm bath, a little reading, listening to music, to a friend (in) call, so some yoga ... . Television and gaming really does not belong to the top to relax, but if that can help you get to sleep easier, why not eh. Look on television not too heavy programs, but do something with a lot of humor. Laughter is healthy!

Sleep

Overnighter blocks is really no solution, it harms more than benefits. You'll be so tired for the exam that you can not think clearly anymore. Peppillen and swallowing is certainly not a good idea. You will only get heavy after! Normally, each student would have to sleep eight hours a night. In theory this is often a utopia. Are you really insecure, rather than go a few hours sleep and get up in the morning a little earlier on. Your brains than all night the dust had time to process (you sleep, but not your brains!) And the next day you are back fit enough to make a little extra pumps or to repeat.

Order

This is part of preparing for the exams. Tidy your room and your office for the examination period begins to look a lot! Studying at a desk where clothes lie between the crumbs from a previous meal and between a stack of unread books is not conducive to concentration! So everything over carefully. See that your desktop is empty, that nothing else than the necessary books and notebooks, pens, a ruler, a calculator, an atlas, a dictionary, white papers and other attributes you need to be able to study. Take all away games and all the other things you can derive. Put your clothes neatly in the closet. That is preparation, because if you on the day of the exam are not looking for that certain sweater and pants that you necessarily want to call the exam to go. Try any source which could lead to avoid stress, including clothes are concerned! A quiet, well lit and ventilated study area is ideal to have the courage to get started.

Create schedules

A useful remedy for large chapters to remember his buddies to CAL. It redistributes the material into smaller parts. With a chart you see at a glance what you should know and be able. Handy to get back to check on the bus, in the car or the tram stop.

Reward promise

This tip is more for the parents. Students promise you something fun after the exams. Fortnight or three weeks continuously concentrate and learn is not really a fun, so it's okay to stand against something fun. An outing with friends, a family trip, a nice surprise, it motivates more and doing more to end desire. Let the student after his final exams have a nice long sleep, all day on TV and hang out in pj prepared his favorite meal. For once doing nothing and that overcrowding empty head is really at issue!

Help

It is not intended to from morning to evening to sit next to a child studying, but some kids like it when someone's around. Someone to look to do a chat, for help or advice on request. Some students find it fun and if someone reassuring their word lists all possible, ask them again or even that difficult mathematical problem can explain. Many students lose untold time to stare at something they do not understand or not. Just a little explanation or a helping hand and they're off! Stay quiet and calm as parents, show interest in what your student does and learns. That motivates and gives courage. Students do not overestimate. As a parent, you usually know what your child can handle. Set the bar is not too high, because that only increases the stress. You can not be more than your best.

Regularity, peace and quiet

What is also important for the student's regularity, peace and quiet. Family life will be a few weeks should take into account the diligent student. No family parties, no outings, no visiting friends, no dates with the neighbors. His chores in the house just suspended. Siblings will also have to understand that television is now just needs a little quieter, not just the students that they should interfere in the house. Parents will have to secure regularity of meals. Avoid intense discussions and disagreements.

If everyone does their bit, those two or three weeks so for life and can then go back to normal corridor, with a good feeling with great results. Good cheer and good luck!