Brain Training Articles & News, Page 71

From childhood through your aging years, keeping your brain function in tip-top shape and supporting sharp thinking are important aspects of your whole-body wellness. The things you do daily can help you feel sharp, capable, and confident—or confused and frustrated. For kids, these are habits that are important to instill early so they can develop ...

Maybe you’ve looked into LearningRx only to find that you don’t live near a center. Or perhaps your student just feels more comfortable at home, or you couldn’t attend in-center personal brain training due to scheduling conflicts. Whatever the reason, we have some good news: LearningRx now offers online brain training.

Picture this: You’re stuck in the car for hours on the way to your family vacation. What do you do? Do you fight over the music selection? Give everyone their own device? Queue up some shows? What if you could use your road trip time to connect as a family and play some fun brain-boosting ...

Being a parent of kids with ADHD can be hard. They are often unfocused, unmotivated, obstinate, and falling behind in school… but they are also often abundantly energetic and creative. ADHD doesn’t have to be a diagnosis that determines how your child is able to learn and function in school or everyday life. It can ...

English instructor Lindsay Mills got involved with LearningRx after working with 6-year-old and 7-year-old siblings who were struggling in school after moving to the U.S. from Korea.

Summer is here, and with it comes more free time for your kids. This is a great opportunity to use this time to strengthen brain skills and have some screen-free activities without it feeling like “school”!  Next time your child complains about being bored, check out these independent games and puzzles they can use to ...

Your brain is central to every part of your life, and keeping it balanced, happy, and healthy is critical to function at your best. But keeping your brain happy doesn’t just mean taking a spa day or “treating yourself.” Here are some practical, daily tips to boost your mental health so you can think more ...

Here’s one way to look at learning: At some point your parents shifted from solving your problems for you to teaching you how to solve them yourself. Maybe they taught you how to do your own laundry, fix your bike chain, make a snack, or budget your allowance. They shared their knowledge, but in order ...

You sit down with your child and teach reading, or they come home from school and you are excited to practice their newly-learned skill… and it’s crickets. There is no confidence, no fluency, and your child’s reading struggles frustrate them (and maybe you too, if we’re being honest).  Reading struggles are hard to navigate. After ...

Your kid walks into day 1 of school in the fall, the teacher throws a math problem up on the SmartBoard, and… crickets. “We didn’t learn that.” “I’ve never seen that before!” “How are we supposed to do this?” The summer slide is a very real phenomenon for kids every single year. Researchers estimate that ...