Lessons to study, exams to prepare… When children and teenagers go back to school, they can be exposed to burnout. Here’s how to help them.
Unfortunately, burnout does not only affect adults : children can also be exposed to it. The summer season continues to be in full swing, but in a few weeks, our adorable toddlers will have to go back to school. Lessons to learn, exercises to do at the end of the day, tests to prepare… Very quickly, before we even had time to notice it, sometimes they are overworked. When this is the case, we speak of school burnout.
Friday August 11, the magazine Psychologies echoed a study published last July in the bi-monthly journal of public health European Journal of Public Health. Finnish researchers have shed light on the fact that the lifestyle of children and adolescents played a vital role in preventing this risk of burnout. A problem that can arise from the workload required by teachers, but also in the face of family pressure and the feeling of being a “bad student”.
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Faced with burnout, the importance of physical activity
After collecting and analyzing data attributed to more than 30,000 adolescents, the scientists focused on certain points in particular, including academic skills, enjoyment of going to school, school burnout or the influence of leisure-time physical activity on student performance.
As indicated Psychologiesthe researchers assessed the time that these young people spent walk or cycle to school. They also asked the teenagers how often they practiced a recreational sporting activity intense enough to increase perspiration and respiratory rate.
After studying this information, the researchers observed that walking or cycling to school was associated with good school results and at enjoy going to class. However, this does not prevent adolescents from falling prey to burnout.
On the other hand, young people who engage in leisure-time physical activity would reap many benefits : better performance, the joy of going to school… and a lower risk of suffering from school burnout. So, inactive adolescents run a 40% higher risk of “school burnout” to those who play sports alongside school.
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You will therefore have understood that exerting yourself is essential for the good mental health children and adolescents. Either it’s about dance, judo or swimming lessonsthe month of September could be the perfect opportunity to make your offspring want to start a new activity!
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