A Sinhala-language book for parents, written by Chandana Sooriyabandara and published in Colombo by M. D. Gunasena & Co. The text is entirely in Sinhala, so a reader without the language will not be able to use it.
Its subject is the weight placed on young children in the name of education — the Grade Five Scholarship examination among other pressures — and how parents might lift some of it. The book is addressed particularly to parents of children between the ages of eight and twelve, the years in which that examination dominates family life.
Sooriyabandara's argument is not confined to getting a child through an examination. He discusses how to nourish a child intellectually, emotionally and personally in a balanced way, and how the two sides of that — learning and emotional wellbeing — might be held together rather than traded against each other. The book deals with managing examination stress, and with raising a child who is mentally sound and able to face what comes afterwards.
It belongs to a body of Sinhala writing aimed at parents navigating the Sri Lankan school system, where the scholarship examination shapes a household's expectations from a child's earliest school years. Readers abroad in Sinhala-speaking families, where the same anxieties often travel with the family, may find it speaks to familiar ground.
- Author: Chandana Sooriyabandara
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552133336
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