Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Homework Battles: Could It Be the Difference of Learning and Thinking Styles?

If you have experienced homework battles, they could possibly be caused by the difference of learning and thinking styles between you and your child. Without knowing it, you may be employing your learning and thinking style with your child both in how to tackle homework and how to study. One learning and thinking style is not better than another. It is important to use strategies that match a person’s learning and thinking style. Keeping in mind your own and your child’s learning and thinking style can help to avoid miscommunication and conflicts during homework time.


Learning styles are simply different approaches or ways of learning. 


  • Visual Learners (Visual Spatial Intelligence – “Picture Smart”): learn through seeing. 
  • Auditory (Verbal Learners - “Word Smart”): learn through listening. 
  • Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners (“Body Smart”): learn through, moving, doing and touching. 
Learning styles can change over time especially in primary and elementary aged students. Learning styles usually remain stable after the teen years. 



A thinking style is the way in which one concentrates, processes, and retains difficult information. Most people learn in one of the two ways—analytically or globally.


  • Global learners need to understand concepts before they start concentrating on the details. Endless facts tend to bore them and they lose interest fast.
  • Analytic learners follow a more conventional pattern. They prefer to concentrate on a series of facts that move toward a gradual understanding of an overall concept. Having information introduced in a step-by-step approach enables children with analytic styles to learn best.

Friday, June 12, 2015

The Purpose of This Blog

The Tips and Resources to Help Struggling Children blog contains posts that may be helpful for use with your child.  I encourage you to please share your own beneficial ideas and links to articles on this blog as well.