How should parents react to poor grades?

What kind of behaviour do young people appreciate when they have to confess bad grades to their parents? How should parents react? Perhaps the film will give you an impetus to explore this question in your own family?

"How should parents react to poor grades?"

For the new film series "And what do you think?" developed by psychologists Stefanie Rietzler and Fabian Grolimund in collaboration with the Stiftung Elternsein foundation, young people aged 13 to 18 make their voices heard and answer questions about school, parents, friendship and the future.
All episodes in the overview:

• «Wer ist deine Lieblingslehrerin?»
• «Wofür bist du deinen Eltern dankbar?»
• «Was macht für dich eine gute Schule aus?»
• «Wie sollen sich Eltern verhalten, wenn das Kind etwas tut womit sie nicht einverstanden sind?»
• «Welche Werte können Eltern ihren Kindern mitgeben?»
• «Mama, du nimmst mich nicht ernst!»
• «Was macht eine Familie glücklich?»
• «Wie gewinnt man Freunde?»
• «Woran zerbrechen Freundschaften?»
• «Was wünschst du dir für die Zukunft?»
• «Was macht dir Angst, wenn du an die Zukunft denkst?»
• «Was würdest du an dir ändern?»
• «Wie stehst du zu Vorurteilen?»
• «Welche Sätze von Erwachsenen nerven dich?»
• «Welchen Tipp würdest du Erwachsenen geben?»
• «Hast du schon mal Erfahrung mit Mobbing gemacht?»

More video series by Stefanie Rietzler and Fabian Grolimund:

• Learning tips for children: How can parents help their children to learn? What motivates them, what only causes conflict at home?
• Strong child: How do children develop self-esteem and a sense of self-efficacy? How can parents support them in this?
• Together we are class - the series for teachers and their pupils
• Learning tips for young people: Jess helps Adi to pass his final apprenticeship exam

Read more about school & grades:

• The old song about grades
  The assessment of pupils' performance using grades is distorting and has long been controversial. It is high time that schools moved towards a modern, fair and child-centred system of assessment. This also requires the trust of parents.
• Pupils need feedback instead of grades
  We are no longer awarding grades until the end of year two." This sentence from the teacher triggered heated discussions at our columnist Fabian Grolimund's parents' evening. Fabian Grolimund explains what sense and nonsense he himself sees in school grades...
• «I don't want to be a hairdresser»
  Yara, 14, is doing everything she can to get into grammar school. The secondary school pupil is afraid that her future prospects will dwindle otherwise.