School has started and maybe you’re getting resistance or your child is anxious about school. Sometimes this can show up as headaches or stomach aches while at school that then seem fine when a child is back at home.
Maybe getting your child to school is not a challenge, but completing homework is frustrating and stressful. Maybe your child has motivation issues and resists and procrastinates with homework.
Root Cause of School and Homework Avoidance
Is this just nerves and anxiety or is there something else going on? If this is your child’s pattern, it is likely not just nerves. In fact, most students want to do well in school. But when it comes time to complete the work to do well, they often resist. Below are potential root cause reasons your child may be struggling:
- Maybe they have processing speed struggles which makes it difficult for them to keep up with the pace of the classroom and they feel overwhelmed because it feels like everything is coming at them so fast. Slow processing speed will also require them to work harder to get through a school day. Then when they come home to more schoolwork, they resist because they are mentally fatigued.
- Maybe working memory is difficult and they have a hard time retaining and following multi-step directions making them feel lost in the classroom.
- Maybe attention skills are poor and they can’t stay on task causing them to miss critical information. They then come home and aren’t able to recall how to complete their homework or even forget that they have homework altogether.
- Maybe executive function is difficult, and they struggle to start a task, stay on task, and complete the task. These difficulties make schoolwork extremely difficult leading to being overwhelmed and disorganized.
Research Based Solutions
If your child lacks the cognitive skills needed to excel in the classroom, it can cause anxiety because they can’t do what’s being asked of them. If their nerves and anxiety about school is a pattern this is often the case. The good news is that these skills can be identified if they are weak and can be strengthened.
Peer-reviewed research published in Frontiers in Education demonstrates that, for students who display oppositional behaviors with academics, that their levels of opposition increase as they age and academic expectations increase. However, students who display oppositional behaviors but then completed a LearningRx Savage training program, while academic expectations increase, oppositional behavior decreased significantly.
Why is this? Because LearningRx Woodbury training identifies the weaker cognitive skills making academics difficult and strengthens these skills. When students then have the ability to complete the work, motivation increases and oppositional behavior decreases.
Call LearningRx Woodbury to Identify the Root Cause
When a child struggles with motivation, it can be frustrating to not know why. Call LearningRx Woodbury today to schedule an initial assessment. Our training can be life changing!
*Results are from surveys and studies of past clients. You or your loved ones may or may not achieve the same outcomes, but you can read more about our research and results here.