Learning Re-Engineered

You watched your child build reading stamina or writing confidence all year. And now you're wondering if those skills will still be there in September.

That question isn't dramatic. It isn't overthinking. Maybe you've seen this before. Your child spends months getting stronger at something, takes the summer off from practicing it, and by fall the skills don't come as easily as they did in May.

If that sounds familiar, you're not imagining it. And you're not the only parent wondering about this as summer starts.

Here's the part that often gets missed: the brain doesn't erase what a child learned over the summer. The brain loses the ability to recall what it learned quickly when no one asks for it. That's not a flaw in the child. That's how memory works.

Which means the question isn't whether your child will forget. The question is whether anyone will ask them to remember.