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Like many parents, you may be wondering if your student is living up to their full potential. On one hand, you’ve witnessed your child’s intelligence, creativity, and wit over the years. But on the other hand, you’ve seen some struggles with grades, argued over unfinished (or unsubmitted) homework, and been to enough parent-teacher meetings to ...

 While most parents enroll their child or teen in LearningRx personal brain training to help with academic performance at school, many experiences latent improvements from the program that impacts the entire family.  Such was the case for Tate’s parents, who brought him to the Owatonna, Minnesota LearningRx in hopes of boosting his cognitive skills.   The ...

For most of us, getting older comes with some significant benefits: we tend to get more mature as we learn from our mistakes; we begin to grasp what’s truly important in life (family, friends, learning, etc.); and we better understand and develop our interests, values, and boundaries. But aging also brings potential problems if we ...

February is International Boost Your Self-Esteem Month, and for parents looking for ways to build their student’s confidence, we have a suggestion: personal brain training. What is personal brain training, and how can it boost self-esteem? To better understand personal brain training, it helps to get an overview of cognitive skills. Cognitive skills are the ...

Getting your child ready for kindergarten is a big deal. Your baby is about to start a 12+ year adventure into formal schooling, and there’s no way to know what’s going to go well and what is going to be a struggle. From all the social and emotional changes this transition requires to the academic ...

Josiah is a 16-year-old who was completely frustrated with high school. Homework took forever and his parents had to be constantly nagging him to complete it. To read the full blog, click HERE.

Josiah is a 16-year-old who was completely frustrated with high school. Homework took forever and his parents had to be constantly nagging him to complete it. To read the full article, click HERE.

Josiah is a 16-year-old who was completely frustrated with high school. Homework took forever and his parents had to be constantly nagging him to complete it. We assessed Josiah and discovered he had deficiencies in working memory and processing speed. The working memory made Josiah forgetful, and he had a hard time organizing his thoughts. ...

As we get into the second half of the school year, maybe you’re trying to think through everything you can do to make it easier than the first half. We get that school stress, homework power struggles, and a lack of organization wear down every member of the family. And we also know that helping ...

We all want our kids to “succeed” in school. We want them to learn the material, apply it to their lives, and become well-rounded, educated individuals who can advocate for themselves and others and make a difference in the world. (Or some days we’d just settle for a C on that social studies test.) Often ...