10 Brain-Boosting Summer Road Trip Games Posted on June 27, 2022June 8, 2023 by Sandra Zamalis 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 …
How to Help Kids with ADHD Focus Better and Learn More Easily Posted on June 26, 2022June 8, 2023 by Dargan Coggeshall 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 …
Screen-Free Activities to Keep Your Child’s Brain Sharp This Summer Posted on June 22, 2022June 8, 2023 by Sandra Zamalis 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 …
Maximizing Learning Potential to Help Your Student Excel Posted on June 21, 2022July 11, 2022 by Wendy Burt 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 …
How Weak Cognitive Skills Cause Reading Struggles Posted on June 20, 2022June 8, 2023 by Dargan Coggeshall 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 …
Why Some Kids Struggle With Reading Posted on June 15, 2022June 13, 2022 by Sandra Zamalis Lots of kids struggle with reading, yet many parents still feel isolated and alone. Your child may be performing below standards in school, struggling with homework, or even feeling embarrassed by their own inability to read fluently. For some kids, reading is just hard. It doesn’t “click.” It doesn’t “make sense.” And for many parents, …
Improve Your Child’s Reading Comprehension Skills with These 7 Tips Posted on June 14, 2022June 8, 2023 by Maureen Loftus Does your child dread reading? Do they complain about it, saying that it’s “boring”? For many kids who struggle to stay motivated with reading, it’s because their reading comprehension skills are not as strong as they could be. After all, if you sat down and did the work to sound out and decipher a whole …
Brain Training Unlocks Hidden Genius in San Antonio Teen Posted on June 14, 2022June 15, 2022 by Erin Kirwan Six months ago Cruz Kirwan was like a lot of high school seniors. He played football and basketball, had a solid social circle, and performed above average in school. Today, he’s about to head off to college a genius. Literally. The 18-year-old scored a 133 on the IQ portion of a nationally recognized cognitive test …
This is More Important than Any Homeschool Curriculum Choice Posted on June 10, 2022June 8, 2023 by Dargan Coggeshall You start your school year with an exciting new homeschool curriculum, but it just doesn’t click. What are you going to do? Keep trying? Push through? Try something new? The curriculum carousel is an exhausting ritual in many homeschool families. They try something and it doesn’t work, or it doesn’t work as well for one …
Concrete signs of negative emotions toward school Posted on June 9, 2022January 31, 2023 by Wendy Burt Over the years, we’ve learned that the learning struggles most students experience in school have nothing to do with intelligence, laziness, poor teaching, or genetics. They come from cognitive skills that simply need a boost to help the student excel.