From the University Agenda

10 advice from experts to the candidate students' parents who will enter YKS (Higher Education Institutions Exam)!

Parents can play an important role in their children's decisions at many turning points. Sometimes school, profession or even clothes... Parents can influence their children's decision or make decisions on their behalf. Shortly before YKS Exam, Expert Psychologist Gizem Açıkgöz and Expert Psychological Consultant Elif Ünal listed their recommendations.

Expert Psychologist Gizem Açıkgöz and Expert Psychological Consultant Elif Ünal from Istanbul Gelisim University, who raised parents' awareness about not putting pressure on students and being with the student to make the right choice, listed the responsibilities of parents during their university choice as follows:

1. During the university preference periods, families should understand the stressful time experienced by their children well and should not engage in attitudes and behaviors that will knock them out or cause them to withdraw against their wishes.
2. Parents should give priority to the student regarding the choice of family, university and department and share his/her ideas by talking to each other in cases where the student has difficulty in making decisions.
3. Parents should ensure that the student is aware of the issues s/he feels good or bad about, or is not interested in. They should be a guide for the students to take their goals kindly that they cannot achieve.
4. Parents should not see their children as a substitute for achieving goals that they cannot achieve themselves and should not force their own dreams to be their children's dreams.
5. The family should recognize the personality traits of their child and guide them in choosing the right profession. If they do not have sufficient knowledge and equipment, they should get support from experts.
6. Parents should trust and support their children's decisions about choosing a profession.
7. They should support the right decisions taken by their children during the preference period after the exam and they should leave the preference processes to the child.
8. Parents should recognize that their child is an individual and should trust their potential.
9. Parents should know that each child is different and unique. They must not compare them with different individuals such as neighbors, friends or siblings around them.
10. Parents should listen their feelings, expectations and wishes. They should always support their future plans and dreams.