This year has been a bit more challenging than I had anticipated. My 12 year old daughter began 7th grade work in September. Although we are now settling into the work load a bit, I am noticing some issues with comprehension. Truthfully, she has never liked narration and actually does better with written than oral, unless she loves something, which is typically unrelated to school. She just tells me short snippets of information from what she or I have read. I know in part it’s her attitude (more than in part), but I’m having a difficult time knowing where to go from here.
I recently read a few articles on teaching children to learn to care. I believe Robin wrote one of them and I can’t remember who the other author was. Anyway, these articles really spoke to me. Unfortunately, I think this is one of the reasons I am struggling with my daughter. I feel she cares about unimportant things and those things over shaddow the important things we are learning about.
I am open to any and all advice. I know many of you are there or have already been there.
I was also considering some consulting from a few ladies who offer it on there websites (sage Parnassus is one.) If you can recommend someone, I would love to hear about that as well.
Thanks 😉