Truancy is any intentional, unjustified, unauthorised or illegal absence from compulsory education. To put it in simple words, Truancy is the problem or situation of school children being absent from school regularly or frequently without permission.
Truancy is a common behaviour observed among elementary school children. There could be many factors responsible for the truant behaviour and it might differ from student to student. Missing the written or oral examination, failure to attend school events or competition, failure to be present on important submission dates or presentations and so on, are some of the probable truant behaviour observed among the learners.
Truancy has very recently been mistaken that only teachers or counselors can help change this truant behaviour. You will find hundreds of articles which give many effective solutions for teachers to deal with truant behaviour among the students. But in this article I will enlist some super easy solutions which would directly help a student to avoid or minimize truancy.
Let's begin,
Reset And Renew Self through Recreational Activities
Recreational activities like walking, swimming, meditation, reading, playing games and dancing help create a balance between academic pressures with physical and mental well-being. Recreation acts as a tool that helps an individual improve their personality, improve their physical stature, reduces tension and anxiety, while contributing to better creative expansion. As per the research findings by NCBI it is found that, Participation in recreational activities is associated with lower occurrence of repeated substance use and truancy and inversely with higher odds for physical fights and injuries.
Share The Unshared With Your Parents
The act of being open minded with your parents or guardians has a scientific approach in dealing with the problem of truancy in children. Sharing your day to day happenings in the school, friends or surrounding and the ways you utilize to solve or combat it, helps to keep your parents aware about your daily psychological temperament. Parents are the perfect guidance center for all your worries and stress reliever dose for all your tensions. It helps you in maintaining mental health and peace. So, ensure to share every detail with your parents in order to reduce the frequent truant behaviour in school and at home.
Open Up The Heart With Your Teachers
After parents, Teachers can be the best companion for every student. Every teacher has a unique way of dealing with all the daily chores of students' life inside the classroom and in the school premises. Generate the habit of being vocal with your teachers. Be it a small or a big problem, she can give solutions to every difficult situation you come across. Let not the situation decide whether you are a good student Or bad student but your attitude towards your work completion and discipline in the classroom speak it all. Minimize the chances of being truant by being open with your teachers.
Get Along Freely With Your Friends
'A friend in need is a friend indeed', says a proverb. Yes, truly it works in each and everyone's life. Making good friends and fulfilling friendship with true dedication and love is an art in itself. When we are lost, confused, shattered, ignored and need immediate help it is only our friends who actually understand us and our emotions. So, ensure to make good quality friends who can stand by you in every thick and thin to minimize the event of truancy.
Be Socially Participative In Social Activities
Being socially involved in activities other than school helps us to be away from our daily stress and worries of our life. It induces a deep feeling of belongingness, acceptance, interaction, love, care and respect in us for the community. Involvement of self in Community work helps us to build effective interactions with our society and surroundings thereby helps us in knowing the community better to create a positive relation. So, As a student we should ensure that we participate in every social event in order to keep our mental health balanced and healthy and avoid truancy.
Be Strong With Healthy Diet
Consumption of healthy balanced meals at regular intervals helps to keep a person healthy, wealthy and wise all the time. Avoid outside fast foods or junk foods. Include high proteins, minerals and fibrous foods in your daily diet, add a dash of nuts on a daily basis in order to boost your memory and cognitive skills. Hence, Minimize your chances of falling sick frequently thereby avoiding truancy in school.
Stop Procrastinating With Your Own Self
Procrastination is the act of delaying things until you are subjected to a sudden external force which induces a kind of stress and an unbalanced mind full of fear. As a student we should always generate the habit of doing or performing our daily task at the right time and at the right place. This helps us to be away from unwanted pressure that piles up later and forces us to adopt truant behaviour. So, be smart and finish your task before time, be smart and stop cheating yourself.
Start implementing these solutions in your daily life and say no to truancy.
All The Best!!!
HAPPY LEARNING!!!
By Shobha Joy Gaddam
(Academician & Educator)
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