Teens & Tweens Round-up: Education, education, education!

For parents of teens and tweens, this is the time of year when education becomes even more important than normal. Concerns about education inevitably increase with the age of your child and the stakes get higher. You worry about what primary school they will go to, only to realise that you worry more about secondary schools. Then you worry about GCSEs and but discover that this was nothing compared to A levels when there is a university place depending on the results! It can seem never ending.

We are now firmly in the middle of exam season. For those about to move from primary to secondary or from secondary school to university, this is a crucial period. Parents can feel the strain too! We are fortunate to have a talented band of tween and teen parent bloggers to depend on and many of them have shared their posts with me this month. Here’s a sample of the brilliant variety that I have seen over the last few weeks.

• I share my recent post which is a summary of my thoughts on parents getting involved in their children’s education. 
• From Busy Mum Lifestyle, there’s a revealing post on what the move to secondary school is really like. 
• There’s a great post from Feeling the Squeeze called I always knew you’d be a woman on a subject that is vitally important to parents of tweens and teens. Puberty can be a challenging time and brings with it a whole load of issues to contend with. 
• From Rachna Says, there’s a brilliant post comparing parenting between the generations. This one will make you think! 
• From Not Just the 3 of Us, there’s a super useful post on tweens and teens getting part-time jobs. There are plenty of facts here that you need to know. 
• Mother Distracted offers some insightful Tips For Parenting Tweens. This is one to bookmark and keep referring back to.
• Crazy with twins shares an honest account of The Late Entrance Exam for Grammar School : Last Minute Preparations which I know will be useful to many parents in the same situation. 
• Finally, I share my post on Five ways to help your child cope with the transition to secondary school which will make useful reading if you have a transition coming up this year. 

So, that’s all for this month. I’d love to hear what you thought of them. There’s plenty more each week in the #TweensTeensBeyond linky on my blog. Good luck with the rest of this term. If you have a blog post that you think will be useful for Mums and Dads of tweens, teens or young adult children I would love to read it. You can submit it for consideration by emailing me at sharon.parry67@gmail.com. Take care and I’ll see you next month.