Student’s Suicide : When Society Fails Exam Of Life

Its result time all across the country. State boards , CBSEs and all other boards announced results of 10th , 12th few days back. While it brought good news to many , it proved nightmare for many and fatal for some.

Four girls of jaipur attempted suicide in jaipur by consuming sulphate , while three died , one is critical. These four girls failed to clear 10th.

When results comes the aspirant is either hailed or slammed but what about parents , schools ?. When a person is in 10th or 12th it is not just his/her test but test of both parents and school too.

When their offsprings fail to get results as per expectation the parents harshly react to the situation. Its understandable , worry about child’s future in this competitive world makes them react in the way that they do.

When offspring does not live upto expectations , its natural for parents to get dejected. Its natural for parents specially father to recollect how he worked hard , how he struggled and all. Its natural.

But we need to understand that offspring in still a kid of barely 16th or 18th. He/she is not mature enough to understand things . One cannot motivate by threat or good job funda. One needs to be more considerate towards offspring . Padh Padh wont help , neither would only tutions. Parents need to spend time with their offsprings , understand them , motivate them , sooth their fears . This all is required before exams .

Even schools need to be considerate. Mere teaching and dubbing some one as failure wont help that student. We all have come across some discouraging teachers who use to say more negative about our abilities than positive ones. Isn’t it?

Now coming to main point. What if your offspring has failed ?. Well understand that your offspring needs your support at this time and not your scoldings. Yes you need to make it clear that what they have got is not right but at same time be considerate and convey that one exam failure in not end of world. They can overcome this again and even excel too. Parents are most influencial people who can make or break kids…

I would like to share example of one of my very good friends. He got mere 54 in 12th science. He took BSC , learnt computer sincerely , went for I.T. job. Right now he is in usa with a I.T. company. Now imagine if his dad would have scolded him to the extent that it is end of his world. Where would my friend would have been?…

His dad behave very maturely , conveyed him that its ok but now he needs to gear up and work hard . He has it in him and one day he would make his family proud.

That triggered new zeal in him to work hard. One success after another saw him reach , where he is today..

If offspring commits suicide , it is definately failure of parents , family . There was no communicative enivornment that offspring could even share their feelings??. Why?.

We need to introspect on where we went wrong. If our children failed in board exam , did we fail the bigger exam of life?

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