Tips for Parents to Help Children with Learning Difficulties

For parents to help children with learning difficulties, or help children who have trouble settling down to do their homework for example – adding Brain Gym® to your routine is going to make a huge difference. It can be very instant and make positive changes. For example, I've been introducing Brain Gym® to a lot of schools around Australia, and the teachers just find that just doing five to ten minutes of Brain Gym® will settle the class down and they improve their concentration and learning. So it really speeds up the lessons.

Without Brain Gym®, normally when children come into a classroom, it can take up to half an hour to settle them and get them ready to learn. When the class starts to use the simple four-step process that we teach called PACE, which takes about five to ten minutes to do, the children are so calm. They are ready to learn, they are alert, and they have better concentration so they actually have the ability to learn at a faster rate.

These same exercises can be used for parents at home with their children when they are doing homework, and once they start doing that, the children get their homework done faster, they are achieving a lot more.

I teach how to use Brain Gym® at home when I do an introductory session with parents. I normally offer a free introductory session where I explain to parents how the brain works, and how they can use these exercises at home, and just do a simple routine that consists of five to ten minutes a day. They will find the child's behavior improves, their learning improves, they start to feel good in themselves, they are more connected to their mind and their whole brain and body. It calms them. They are more relaxed and the situation just improves overall and will help all parents to calm children down and help children with learning difficulties.