Richard Hogan: Here are my tips for dealing with Leaving Cert 'divas'

"I meet so many families this time of year struggling with all the pressures the exams place on them. They describe living with an easily-agitated diva."

Richard Hogan. Photograph Moya Nolan

Now that we are a week into the state exams and parents are exhausted from pandering to the needs of their student teenager, they’re probably thinking, “Will we ever survive this as a family?” 

The fridge is never stocked to satisfaction, the look you gave when they came out of the exam was loaded with judgment, there isn’t enough hot water for the three-hour shower required to wash the exam off, and you are speaking too loudly around the house.