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If your child spends hours the day before a test scrambling to pull together notes, only to walk away from study sessions feeling foggy, frustrated, and not at all confident, it may be time to introduce some new study skills. Studying is an art. If your child has the skills to study, they will feel ...

Summer break is full of relaxation and fun, but it can also be a time where your kids actually lose up to ⅓ of the knowledge they gained over the school year. That’s a HUGE number, so what can you do to keep learning moving through the summer? Summer learning strategies can help your child’s ...

May is National Mental Health Month. This month we want to point out the link between mental health and brain function.  Most of us have some inkling about how mental health affects the brain. You’ve probably seen it yourself when you feel stressed for a long period of time or noticed that a family member ...

The “summer slide” may sound like fun, but it’s definitely something you’ll want to keep your kids far away from this summer! During the summer, kids lose an average 2.6 months of grade-level equivalency in math computation skills and 25 percent of their reading skills. That explains why teachers usually spend four to six weeks ...

Summer break is right around the corner, and with it comes lots of fun, down time, and relaxation (or maybe your schedule is just getting busier with work, play dates, pool trips, and sports… we get that, too). Either way, it’s important to figure out how to keep the momentum from the school year going ...

If you’re looking for a rewarding job where you can help make an impact on the lives of others, a career as a LearningRx brain trainer could be a good fit for you!

As an engaged parent, you want to do whatever you can to maximize your student’s chances of success. But how do you maximize your student’s potential? Oftentimes, it’s not until students are getting poor grades that we look for interventions to help them improve. But sometimes, all it takes for an average student to truly ...

Stressed kids feel like a burden and struggle with confidence, school performance, behavior, and more. Stress is a part of life for all of us, and unfortunately kids are feeling its effects earlier and earlier. Helping your kids learn to manage stress is a critical life skill in the world we live in, and here ...

It’s not always easy to determine how your student is performing in school. Although poor grades may be one of the more obvious signs, parents may assume their child or teen just isn’t putting in enough effort. After all, you know your student is smart. The only explanation that makes sense is that they’re just ...

Test anxiety is a very real fear among kids, teens, and adults. Whether it’s your 3rd grade standardized tests, the SATs, college exams, or professional certifications, testing can be a huge source of fear and stress for many people. Why is this? Why do we freeze up and forget everything we knew so well the ...