attentIon struggles: one mom’s story
“I dreaded every phone call from my son’s teacher!”
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aiden couldn’t sit still in class. His mother, Kanika, adds, “Not only could he not sit still, he couldn’t follow along with the material, and he distracted his classmates. Toward the end of his first year at school, oh, how I grew to dread every phone call from his teacher!” At home, Jaiden struggled to focus long enough to complete homework or follow instructions. Even answering questions seemed to stump the kindergartener. His mother remembers, “If I asked him what he had for lunch, he couldn’t tell me. If I asked, ‘Why do you think that bird flew into that tree?’—he couldn’t answer. He’d just say ‘I don’t know.’” Despite his parents’ attempts to help, Jaiden grew frustrated with any task that posed even the smallest challenge. “It was impacting his confidence,” Kanika says. “He was only in kindergarten, but he was already learning to give up before putting forth any effort at all.” Kanika and her husband found LearningRx in an online search for help. The brain training company offered something different from tutoring, using fun, challenging mental exercises to strengthen the skills Jaiden needed to pay attention, remember, and think.
“Within the first week of brain training at LearningRx, I saw subtle improvements,” Kanika says. “And during the second week and beyond, I saw tremendous changes.” What were some of those changes? “I found I wasn’t repeating myself as often, especially with multiinstructions. Suddenly I could say, ‘Jaiden, clean up the table, pick up your dishes, and put them in the sink,’ and he could do it. Or I’d ask him a question like ‘Why do you think that bird flew into that tree?’ and he’d think about it and say something like, ‘Well, maybe he’s trying to get away from something,’ or ‘He likes it there,’ or ‘Maybe he’s tired.’ “Honestly? I was floored.” Kanika says that testing after brain training showed huge improvements in Jaiden’s short-term memory, attention, and other skills, too. “This program was money well spent, and I’m ecstatic about the results. The results were almost magical. In just weeks, he improved leaps and bounds and he’s still continuing to love reading, audio books, board games…he’s Like a different child. Thanks to LearningRx, Jaiden is now a confident, positive, six-year-old who is eager to learn!”
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