How Brain Training Can Improve Your Life
While September typically receives all the “back to school” hype, October is the month where the new school year gets serious. The initial introductory period is over, and the work becomes increasingly challenging. For college students, this is the point in the semester where the midterms start to hit and when students get an idea for how they’re really doing in the class.
It’s also at this point in the year where parents start to feel overwhelmed. By October, teachers know which students are struggling to keep up, and it can take a lot out of the parent’s busy schedule to meet with teachers and ensure everyone is on track.
Take my client, who we’ll refer to as Beth, as an example. Beth was in tears because of the issues she was encountering with her son’s education. Both she and her son were diagnosed with ADHD. She understood the struggles of the diagnosis, but wanted her son to experience more success in school. However, she was getting constant messages, phone calls, and emails from the school about her son’s poor performance on class work, homework, quizzes, and tests. The school was offering little-to-no help on how to get Beth’s son to improve and she was going crazy trying to figure out what to do. Of course she wanted to help her son succeed in school, but this issue was taking up a good chunk of Beth’s time, attention, and focus—and she felt wildly out of depth. She hired me to help put some structure in his room at home. We created a better zone for clothing, sleep, and homework so he could better focus during the school year.
A few weeks after helping Beth and her son, I met Gina Foster, director at LearningRx in Tysons. I had Beth on my mind when I learned about the awesomeness that happens at LearningRx for their clients (especially school-aged youth). As a education-based service that helps people of all ages enhance their cognitive learning skills, LearningRx would have been a perfect solution for Beth. Using their services she could have “outsourced” the learning help her son needs to professionals. It would have been a win/win situation—her son would have improved his cognitive skills and she would free up her time and energy from the resulting anxiety.
After meeting Gina and the rest of the LearningRX staff, I decided to complete a cognitive assessment test myself and the experience was incredible. I truly got to remember the pressures of being in school when my brain got a workout during the test!
Once the assessment portion is complete, LearningRX offers targeted exercises that train cognitive skills like memory, attention, auditory processing, and logic and reasoning to sharpen any areas you (or your child) may need some extra help with.
Not only is this service great for kids who are struggling in school, but it also helps adults who have always struggled with a specific discipline or field of study—I’ll admit, mine is math! Plus, with our increasingly hectic schedules and the many different ways in which digital devices demand and grab our attention, taking the time to focus on our cognitive skills is an absolute must.
So, whether you need to free up your schedule from too many parent-teacher conferences or would like to increase your ability to focus on bookkeeping for your business, I recommend looking into Learning RX for help. They also have a book out right now, Unlock the Einstein Inside: Applying New Brain Science to Wake Up the Smart in Your Child, that’s worth the read.
If you’re looking for other ways to clear up your brain or physical space from clutter, let’s talk! I’m here to help make your life easier, whether it’s outsourcing learning struggles or taking control of your day-to-day schedule.
