THE TELEGRAPH: How to exam-proof your teenager's bedroom

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Stress expert Sir Cary Cooper, a professor of health and psychology at the University of Manchester, says a messy bedroom around exam time is often a reflection of teenage stress; ‘I have four grown up children and we’ve gone through the exam process with all of them,’ he says. ‘One was very tidy and structured, two were incredibly messy and one was in between.

 

‘Rather than getting cross about the mess, which was a symptom of their inability to manage stress and structure their study, we helped them sort their rooms out and – without them realising – counselled them through exam stress at the same time.’