Brain Training: The Best Investment in Your Child’s Future
As parents, we’d do anything for our children. Braces. Summer camps. Travel sports. Music lessons. These things fill our schedules, and some would even call them rites of passage. But when it comes to investing in your child, what if you could sign them up for a program that would make learning easier, reading more fluent, and their memory and attention so sharp that school becomes easier and their confidence skyrockets? This is what the investment of brain training has brought to thousands of families like yours.*
The Summer Boost with Lasting Impacts
In addition to your swim lessons and summer camps, what if you signed your child up for a program that*:
- Improves their confidence in ALL areas (from school to sports and everywhere in between)
- Is completely individualized, focused on their unique strengths and weaknesses
- Targets weak skills to make them stronger
- Makes learning, reading, focusing, remembering, and problem-solving easier
This is what brain training at LearningRx has done for thousands of individuals. Training the brain is not just a “tutor” who helps your child get through a class at school. Instead, brain training is an investment into the optimal functioning of your child’s brain that will pay off for a lifetime.
Who Needs Brain Training?
Whether your child struggles academically and has lost confidence or competes at the highest levels, a better functioning brain is important.
Brain Training for Struggling Students
Struggling students have benefitted from brain training by helping them catch up—and even surpass—on age equivalency scores in reading, logic & reasoning, memory, attention, and more. (On average, there’s a 3+ year gain in skills).
Our program is unique in that it is customizable to your child’s unique skill set and array of needs.
For example, maybe your child excels in math but reading continues to be a struggle no matter what you try. Or maybe your child struggles across the board and their school is saying that they need intervention. Or maybe your child has a diagnosed learning struggle like dyslexia, autism spectrum, or ADHD.
We have worked with clients in all of these categories and have results pointing to the benefits of brain training for each.
Brain Training for High Achievers
High-achieving students still need efficiently wired brains! Brain training boosts cognitive performance in a way that can help high achievers feel more confident because the reality is, many smart and gifted kids struggle. Upon closer inspection, weak executive skills often lie at the heart of this struggle.
Executive skills are higher-level thinking skills that allow a child to regulate their thinking, behavior and emotions.
The Center for the Developing Child at Harvard University describes them this way:
“[Executive skills] enable your child to plan, focus attention, remember instructions and juggle multiple tasks successfully…The brain needs [these skills] to filter distractions, prioritize tasks, set and achieve goals and control impulses.”
Parents and teachers will often observe weak executive functioning skills in otherwise bright children. Early in school, these higher-level thinking skills are needed for keeping their desk organized, engaging appropriately with other kids and regulating their emotions. As children move into high school, executive skills help students dissect and interpret poetry, utilize deductive reasoning and write compelling papers all while effectively managing their time and keeping their materials organized.
These skills carry over into college or the workforce after school has ended, and kids who have stronger cognitive and executive skills are set up to succeed in some powerful ways.
Brain Training is an Investment in Better Confidence
We know that confidence is an important quality for our kids to master. Becoming resilient in the face of hard things make our kids better at life in general. At LearningRx, one of the most reported improvements across the board in any of our programs is better confidence.
Why is this? Our approach targets the things that are “hard.” However, we try to do it in a way that’s fun and game-like so our clients stay motivated to keep trying. This mindset shift is HUGE! Helping our kids learn that it’s ok to fail builds their ability to bounce back and try hard things outside of our 4 walls.
If you take seriously your job of enabling the independence of your child, then you should consider strengthening the way his or her brain interacts with the world.
Whether it’s in school, sports, hobbies, or a job, a brain with trained cognitive abilities can experience greater success because learning, focus, and memory will be easier.
*Results may vary. The results shared here are from past clients. You or your child may or may not experience the same levels of success.
