Nowadays, kids have major stress and anxiety problems from school. The amount of work and assignments students have to do is ridiculous. We get told that one five-problem assignment isn’t that bad, but have assignments like that for seven other classes. The stress starts to build up quickly, and doing that five times a week makes it worse. Most students also do extracurricular activities after school, which takes up about two to three hours for every activity we do. Then to get home at 7:30-8:00 and still have to do homework and sleep puts even more weight on a kid’s shoulders. But what really doesn’t help the situation is their parents.

Parents in today’s society force their children to have good grades. If they were to get a grade not to the liking of the parents’ standards, they will be punished in some sort of way. This also doesn’t help the stress that the kids deal with and can make them angry at themselves. Parents can be too harsh on kids and not realize the amount of stress their children are under and punishing them just makes matters worse. I don’t think the parents realize how much work students actually have to do. So parents deal with their kids by punishing them, but what they need to do is help their kids out. If they help their kids even a little bit, it could help them get a better grade and get on top of their school work. 

In the end, parents could help their kids out instead of punishing them because of a bad grade. They can help their child if they are struggling, be less harsh on their child, or just trust them that they are doing great in school. Parents just need to realize what’s going on in their child’s life, instead of their first instinct being to punishing them. Students have a lot of weight on their shoulders and don’t need to deal with any more than what is already going on.