Anytime a great new idea comes on the scene, it is inevitably followed by a herd of experts all claiming that they have the best resource for you. But how can you tell which one is telling the truth?
Brain training is no exception to this principle. It’s new, it’s exciting and it is yielding amazing results in people with learning struggles. There are lots of new brain training resources popping up every day, and their claims are not always consistent, or easy to understand. When it comes to your child’s future, you need a clear answer. So what do you do? Here are five tips that we hope will help you decide which resources to pay attention to and which to take with a grain of salt.
Tip #1: Investigate. Search for information. Check out the reputation of the resource in question. Anyone can make a program sound great with clever marketing copy. But real results are hard to fake. Read the rest of this entry »
Some kids struggle to learn.
For years, moms have been making their kids take summertime piano lessons. Not surprisingly, moms know best: it turns out those piano lessons may have helped you more than you realize. Over the summer, students typically lose over 22% of what they learned the previous year. They call it “summer slide” and Kim Bellini, director of the 
June 15th is National Brain Training Day! On June 1st, LearningRx, the country’s leading personal brain training company declared June 15th National Brain Training Day. The day was declared with two purposes in mind. First, to dispel myths around cognitive skills training. Secondly, to raise awareness of the phenomenal gains the right type of brain training can bring.
Does your child need brain training or tutoring? What’s the difference? Do you know? Take this short quiz, and see if you can tell the difference. Get a piece of paper, read through the two scenarios in each question, and write down which story is like brain training and which story is like tutoring.
Chances are, now that summer’s here, you aren’t thinking much about brain fitness (if you think about it at all). No, you’re thinking about playing tag, eating watermelon, or lying on the beach in the sun doing absolutely nothing, and I don’t blame you. But activities that boost physical and brain fitness during the summer can help you (and your family) enjoy the long summer days even more, and be ready for next fall – when cooler weather and challenging classes will require more of both the brain and the body.
Seems like everybody these days wants to increase their brain power. Take a trip around the web, and you’ll see what I mean. Some people say the best way to increase your brain power is to eat protein in the morning. Others say it has to do with exercise. For others, meditation is the answer to making the brain function at its best. All of these techniques are useful if we are talking about a qualitative increase, that is, getting the brain you have today to work at its best. But what about quantitative increase? Can you make the brain you have today a bigger, better brain tomorrow? That would be an entirely different kind of increase in brain power! There are many ideas out there for improving your brain’s health and function – but LearningRx goes a step further: our mission is to increase your brain power by growing the brain itself, and encouraging it to making new connections. Instead of just a healthy brain, you’ll have more brains! It’s the difference between having one healthy child, and having twins. 
Ah… the unruly right brain. We all know right-brained people – those out-of-the-box thinkers that confuse lefties with their random rhetoric, frustrate secretaries with their messy desks, and astonish everyone with their creative prowess. But what do all those right brain vs. left brain theories really mean? Are artists doomed to never be good at math? Are creative writers simply unable to think logically? Experience would tell us that perhaps it’s more complicated than just being one or the other. In fact, I’ll bet if you think about it, you can come up with a few things that you like to do, and even do very well, that don’t fit in with your generally “right-brained” or “left-brained” tendencies. 
