Parents of Hardworking Teens

Ep. 131

Students really dislike the planning stage of essays and extended responses. 

I get it. 
It feels like an extra chunk of work, when they really just want to get going with the writing. 

But that would be a mistake.

Here are 3 reasons why your teen should plan EVERY extended response - whether it’s a 10 mark exam question, 2000 word essay or research inquiry or report style assignment...
so they create:
- a higher qu...

Ep. 130

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It doesn’t matter how motivated you are, if don’t know what you’re doing or how you're going to do it, it's gonna be very difficult to make progress. 

Overwhelm and distraction are feelings an...

Ep. 129

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Unique is not necessarily better. In fact often, it can be worse. If it means that it’s more tricky to meet the criteria or find the information needed. 

Unique is not considered as more clever by marki...

Ep. 128

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This sounds brutal, but...

Ep. 127

→ Get the Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.
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It's no good letting students carry on thinking or studying in certain ways if it ...

Ep. 126

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There are explicit teaching / direct instruction ways ...

Ep. 125

Get the Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.
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If your teen is constantly doing their best, and sometimes you’re concerned about them burning out 
OR 
if your teen is NOT putting in their best and you’re concerned about that - then this episode is for you.

I beli...

Ep. 124

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So many students THINK they're studying hard, when actually they're just staying busy and FEELING productive.

This is a recipe for disappointment when the results just don't seem t...

Ep. 123

Get the Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.
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If you’ve been considering hiring a tutor for your teen, or they already have one, but things aren’t changing as much or as quickly as you’d hoped, 
OR 
you’ve decided not to get one, but want to know what else you ...

Ep. 122.

Get the Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.
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How to help your teen nail their new year group - and have them:

• feel confident and in control, 
• know exactly what’s expected, 
  and 
• achieve the results that match their effort.
  
  - Without the guessw...

Ep. 121
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Yes, the subject content will be at a higher level.

Yes, they'll probably get a bit more homework.

But these aren't the things I see holding students back as they progress through the yea...

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We're all familiar with the 80-20 rule.
E.g.
- We wear 20% of our clothes, 80% of the time.
- 20% of our actions create 80% of our results.

Here'...

Ep. 119
 
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Here are 5 things you probably didn’t know about external exams, including:
- how they work,
- how they’re written and marked
and
- how your teen can turn them to their advantage.

These are all things I had very...

Ep. 118 -

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If your teen has ever questioned ‘what’s even the point of this task?’, or exclaimed ‘why am I having to do this?’... I want to let you know: those are actually some very strategic and smart questions!

In f...

Ep. 117 - 

Listen in on a conversation I had on the Happy Families podcast with Justin Coulson and his wife, Kylie a while ago where we talked about:

      
  •  Study stress
  •  What causes all of the stress
  •  How stress isn't about having too much to do, it's about how to get it all done
  •  Motivation & wellbeing
  •  Life balance
  •  Tips to help teens get through their exams<...

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Here's why I think exams should become your teen's GREATEST STRENGTH
(and what I'm doing to help make that a reality!):

1) Exams are the biggest source of stress and cause of anxiety in most teen's school life.
- If they can nail exams, their stress levels will be lower (and your household will be happier!) ;)

2) Exams usually count for the biggest % of an overall mark or grade.
- ...

- Ep. 115
Listen in on a conversation I had on the Mama Mia podcast a while ago where we talked about:

• how to tackle big tasks 
• the key to studying smarter 
• and the three hurdles facing procrastinators. 

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Ep. 114
A better way for your teen to approach and think about completing tasks or answering questions, so they achieve more of those high level criteria and do it in a focused, clear and succinct way.


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Ep. 113
Real life student case study:
There was something subtly holding one student back from certainty and success in her Maths assignment.
Listen to discover how we figured out what she’ll do differently next time (in not just Maths, but in ANY and EVERY assignment)
- AND -
how you can apply this with your teen in ANY of their tasks and assessments.

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