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For university and upper high school students who are capable of far more than their grades suggest.
You’ve worked hard to get where you are. You’ve prioritized what needed to be done, made sacrifices, figured it out. So when you see your child burning themselves out while deflecting every suggestion, or always having time for parties but never for homework, it’s hard not to worry about their future. And then you get the phone call.
Some days you lose hope. Some days you wish they’d just get it together.
But when they open the material, they quickly hit the same wall. They don’t know what they’re looking at. They don’t know what matters, what connects to what, or what they’re supposed to do with any of it. And if they don’t get it right away, there is no path to getting there. No feedback. No way to build from what they half understood. Just more material that assumes they got the last thing.
The material doesn’t feel hard. It feels impossible. But their friends seem to be doing fine.
Your child isn’t just struggling with school. They’re afraid of it. They’re ashamed of it.
You pull your hand off a hot stove. But your child can’t pull away from school. They have to sit back down in front of the thing that makes them ask themselves, “What’s wrong with me?” Every day, every class, every assignment. And when you can’t escape something your nervous system has registered as a threat, it takes over.
Some spend hours and hours burning themselves out trying to memorize everything. Some spend those same hours scrolling their phone until the anxiety of not handing anything in overtakes the anxiety of looking at it. Some can’t cope at all and shut down completely.
There’s nothing wrong with learning to manage your time. And there’s a place for grit, and meaningful struggle. And your child does need to prioritize. But none of that works when they simply cannot make sense of the material. And after everything they’ve been through, it makes sense that your child will resist anything that’s solving the wrong problem. Because it all walks them back to that moment where they feel inadequate and incapable.
They don’t need another strategy. They need the experience to change.
I build the meaning-making layer that makes the pieces finally connect so understanding can take hold. Your child uploads their material. What comes back is an interactive, deeply engaging learning experience infused with the professor’s intent and expectations, calibrated for your child’s brain. They engage because they can. They can’t fake understanding, and they don’t need to.
Nothing to organize. Nothing to figure out next. Your child experiences themselves as the capable, intelligent person they’ve always been.
No ongoing sessions. I meet with your child to understand their learning needs and their blocks. I build everything on the backend and walk them through it. The system is functioning within the first week. Three to four sessions total.
