Why Smart Kids Still Struggle With Studying: 4 Tips from Evan Weinberger on How to Help Your Child Study
Why Smart Kids Still Struggle With Studying
If you’ve ever looked at your child and thought, “I know they’re smart… so why is studying such a struggle?”, you are not alone.
This is one of the most common frustrations I hear from parents. Their child understands the material, participates in class, and seems capable… but when it comes time to actually study, everything falls apart.
What’s often missing isn’t intelligence. It’s study skills for students and effective time management for kids, and this is where confident parenting can make all the difference.
The Real Problem Isn’t Intelligence
When a child struggles with studying, it’s easy to assume they’re not trying hard enough. But in most cases, that’s not what’s happening.
Many kids have never actually been taught study skills for students
They don’t know:
How to break down assignments
How to prepare for tests
How to manage their time effectively
Without strong time management for kids, even the brightest children can fall into patterns of procrastination, avoidance, and last-minute stress.
This is why so many smart kids still struggle.
Why Studying Turns Into a Daily Battle
If you feel like you’re constantly reminding, nagging, or negotiating, you’re not doing anything wrong.
You’re responding to a real gap.
When kids lack study skills for students and time management for kids, they:
Feel overwhelmed
Don’t know where to start
Avoid the task entirely
This is where parents often step in more and more, but without confident parenting, it can quickly turn into a power struggle.
What Confident Parenting Looks Like Here
Instead of micromanaging or constantly reminding, confident parenting means stepping into a leadership role that is calm, clear, and structured.
It sounds like:
Setting clear expectations
Creating simple systems
Letting your child build independence
With confident parenting, you’re not doing the work for your child—you’re guiding them toward learning the study skills for students they actually need.
Teaching Study Skills That Actually Work
One of the most important shifts you can make is realizing that studying is a skill.
And like any skill, it can be taught.
Effective study skills for students include:
Breaking tasks into smaller steps
Reviewing material over time instead of cramming
Using active recall instead of passive reading
When kids learn these study skills for students, studying becomes more manageable—and much less stressful.
The Role of Time Management
Even with strong study strategies, without time management for kids, things can still fall apart.
Kids need help learning:
When to start
How long to work
How to plan ahead for tests
Strong time management for kids reduces last-minute panic and builds consistency.
And the best part? These are skills that carry into adulthood.
How to Support Without Taking Over
This is where many parents feel stuck.
You want to help, but you don’t want to do everything for them.
This is where confident parenting becomes essential.
You can:
Sit nearby while they start
Help them create a simple plan
Praise effort, not just results
When you combine confident parenting with clear study skills for students and strong time management for kids, you create a system your child can actually succeed in.
Why This Matters Long-Term
This isn’t just about the next test.
When kids don’t develop study skills for students and time management for kids, they often carry those struggles forward.
But when do they learn these skills?
They gain:
Confidence
Independence
A sense of control over their work
And with confident parenting, they also feel supported, not pressured.
Final Thoughts
If your child is struggling with studying, it doesn’t mean something is wrong with them.
It means they need support in the right areas.
By focusing on study skills for students, improving time management for kids, and showing up with confident parenting, you can completely change how your child approaches school.
And more importantly, you can change how they feel about themselves in the process.
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[00:00:00] Leah Clionsky: Welcome to the Educated Parent Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Leah Clionsky, and I'm so thrilled about my guest for today because he has been on before. So today we are going to talk about how to help your kids prepare for tests. I know they never wanna do it, so how are we going to actually be able to help them so that they're able to have better grades and better experiences?
[00:00:23] Leah Clionsky: So I'm here with my friend Evan Weinberger. He was on previously to tell us how to help our kids get their homework done, and that was an amazing episode. But Evan is the founder and CEO of staying ahead of the game, a Houston-based academic coaching and tutoring company he founded in 2006. And his focus is on helping students build the executive functioning skills they need to be successful in the classroom and beyond.
[00:00:48] Leah Clionsky: So, Evan, I am so glad that you're here today again.
[00:00:51] Evan Weinberger: Thank you for having me. What a, what an exciting topic. Last one was exciting. This one's even more robust. I think. So exciting for your viewers.
[00:00:59] Leah Clionsky: Yeah. It's so stressful. It's a concern that comes up a lot in therapy. Kids need to get their tests, grades up. Parents are trying to help. Kids don't want your help, or they tell you you're doing it wrong or you don't know what it is they're talking about. And then as parents, when we try to help more, then we get a lot of pushback, but we know that they do need that support.
[00:01:19] Leah Clionsky: So it's really difficult.
[00:01:20] Evan Weinberger: You know, Studyings a a different animal than homework, right? Homework is so linear and straightforward. If you have 20 questions or 20 problems to work, how do you know when you're finished? When you answer the 20 questions , or your best attempt, right? When you solve those 20 problems, studying is this dirty five letter word.
[00:01:35] Evan Weinberger: And what I see in students as very common is, they might. Might be great at daily work, and it's very linear, it's very straightforward. But when it comes to , this idea of studying, kids feel it as like a weight on their shoulder that just sits there until they walk out of taking the test, right?
[00:01:52] Evan Weinberger: But really studying, it's a thing and it should have a process. And that has a beginning and a middle and an end. And there should be a point where you put things away. Once you've gone through that process and you feel prepared and confident. And move forward. And , it's a skill. If somebody hasn't taught that to you, and you haven't practiced and strengthened that muscle, then even , the brightest kids out there, all of a sudden they go to flex those muscles and realize, they're not there.
[00:02:16] Evan Weinberger: So studying a, big, important topic that can be the source of quite a bit of turbulence at home.
[00:02:21] Leah Clionsky: Yeah. A lot of the conflict I usually see is that parents feel that their kids are not studying enough or not correctly enough, and the kids are certain that they are studying the right amount and. So then there's a lot of conflict about you're not studying the way I think you should. No, mom and dad, you don't know the new ways of studying.
[00:02:40] Leah Clionsky: I have it all figured out. And then , there's just a lot of frustration that I think is based on everyone being anxious that student will not do well. The kid's anxious and the parent is anxious too.
[00:02:50] Evan Weinberger: And that's a good point. , It's even more complex than that because if you could take, if you have three children and you could take what worked for this child and you could say, listen, I know this works. This is the right way to do it. And then you impose that on your next child and you do it again and again, and it doesn't work.
[00:03:05] Evan Weinberger: See that's a common experience. We're all wired up differently. So while there's a couple dozen research driven science-based ways to, to study, not everyone's gonna resonate equally well or be equally effective for every student. And so you can't copy and paste. The same thing that worked for you as a parent and have your child do that, or even if you have multiple children, what worked for child number one, it might not necessarily work or as well , as it did for child number two.
[00:03:30] Evan Weinberger: So it's, there's lots of complexities there.
[00:03:32] Leah Clionsky: Yeah, so one of the challenges too is that we're trying to teach a skill that we have never been explicitly taught by anybody, and we're just basically relaying what we think worked well for us, or if we don't think we were good at studying what we think worked well for the people who were good at studying.
[00:03:47] Leah Clionsky: And so when our kids push back, they have maybe a little bit of a point sometimes that we might not actually know what we're talking about here.
[00:03:54] Evan Weinberger: Yeah, that's true. And then, another good point is this is very related to my bread and butter executive function skills, right? So.. To study effectively, it requires physical and digital organization. It requires analysis. It requires, prioritizing and skills around that time management. It requires advocating for yourself, right?
[00:04:13] Evan Weinberger: And all of these things fall under the umbrella of executive function skills. resonates with me as an expert on executive function and that's uh, part of the very fabric of everything that we do. So, Study skills is a big topic for us.
[00:04:25] Leah Clionsky: If you could gather all the parents around who are trying to be helpful and aren't, and you could tell them something, what would you tell them?
[00:04:33] Evan Weinberger: If I could gather all the parents around and tell them something about study skills, it would be, it has a start, it has a middle, and it has an end, not the same approach is going to work equally well for each child. And that failure is a part of the learning process. Just like couples conflict is an important part of a relationship.
[00:04:54] Evan Weinberger: , A perfect relationship is partly characterized , by conflict, right? You can't have a couple, and they never have a conflict in their lives. Similarly, for , a student's trajectory in school, a perfect trajectory in school needs to include. Some falling short of expectations needs to include some failures and now's the time to do it.
[00:05:13] Evan Weinberger: 'cause the consequences later, are much greater. ? So you aren't going to crush is what I would tell families. Your child is not gonna crush every quiz and every test that they have. And these are opportunities. For learning, falling short of expectation or the word I don't like to use, an occasional failure, is an opportunity to learn.
[00:05:33] Evan Weinberger: I don't want to, I don't want crazy, I don't wanna say it's super exciting, that never feels good. , But it is an opportunity to identify. Trends and learn more about yourself and really hone your study techniques up. That worked for my brother. I tried. That didn't work as well for me, so what did I just learn about myself and how can I approach this differently next time in hopes for a different outcome?
[00:05:53] Evan Weinberger: Right.
[00:05:54] Leah Clionsky: We have to like be willing to experiment and let your child experiment with different kinds of strategies.
[00:05:59] Evan Weinberger: Right.
[00:06:00] Leah Clionsky: One thing that I've personally thought about a lot having been to school for so many years and studied for so many things is that there's productive studying and unproductive studying.
[00:06:08] Leah Clionsky: Like I can sit there in front of a book for a million years and learn nothing, but there are times where I could be there for much less time and really understand a concept. And I think sometimes kids are afraid that if their parents let them help study. Help them learn to study. Then they're just gonna be sitting there for hours and hours and hours staring at materials and not taking anything in.
[00:06:27] Leah Clionsky: Really?
[00:06:28] Evan Weinberger: You know Absolutely. And people's natural reaction before they build any skills around studying. The first thing. That they think studying must be synonymous with is rereading everything. Right? And that's actually, one thing that is not grounded , in research or science like that is not the effective way to study.
[00:06:46] Evan Weinberger: You can't go and re-listen to every lecture. You can't go and reread every word of every chapter of the unit. , you just, you can't do that. That is not effective. So therefore, what is right, and I know we're gonna talk about it.
[00:06:57] Leah Clionsky: We absolutely are. I guess I was thinking too, that if someone told you that's how you had to study, you had to reread everything. That would be so overwhelming that you would start resisting. And
[00:07:08] Leah Clionsky: so if it seems too overwhelming, kids resist. I mean, humans resist. Let's be real. None of us wanna do overwhelming amounts of things.
[00:07:15] Evan Weinberger: That's right. Although, I'll tell parents and your listeners. , What I have found that's encouraging is that I feel like I found kids to be , inherently motivated. You know that when they see a connection, when there's not role ambiguity, and , they know what I need to do first, second, third, fourth, and then they see the results from those efforts.
[00:07:33] Evan Weinberger: They finally landed on something that works. they're intrinsically motivated to keep doing that 'cause it feels good to, to do well and achieve to your potential. That feels good. So sometimes we look at kids and we're like, ah, kids just don't like school. Ah, they just, they don't like studying.
[00:07:47] Evan Weinberger: And Sure, to some degree. School might feel like a job, in a way, but even your job as adults, it feels good to be good at what you do. , And so I think they don't have the words to express it, but when they're really against studying, it's, what it really means is I haven't figured out how to do it, or , I've tried.
[00:08:05] Evan Weinberger: Different things that didn't work and it doesn't work. So I'm not, I don't feel motivated to get back in there and try again because I know that when I do this, it doesn't have the impact that I want. . If you can clear up that role ambiguity and actually demonstrate to students.
[00:08:18] Evan Weinberger: Some ways to do this and they see results from their efforts, then all of a sudden you see motivation kick back in that, that parents might have written off , as lost, or this child is just not motivated, I think that's big.
[00:08:31] Leah Clionsky: Well, that feels very exciting, and usually thinking about studying does not feel exciting. So let's go in, Evan. Tell
[00:08:37] Leah Clionsky: me what are the three strategies that we can use to help students get those kinds of results?
[00:08:42] Evan Weinberger: So I cheated. I have four, but my first. My first is you need to do a, I call it a final stretch assessment, right? Especially, there's , a month, maybe a couple months left of school, it feels like the bed is largely made, so to speak. This is when it's time for a really honest, transparent. , I call it a final stretch assessment.
[00:09:04] Evan Weinberger: So identify what assignments are left for each class in, for the rest of , the school year or semester. , What is your grade in those classes going into those final assignments that will help you? Direct your attention to the right place, and prioritize, Hey, I need to focus a little bit more on this.
[00:09:20] Evan Weinberger: This is a bit more important to me. , Which classes are going to have comprehensive exams? Not every teacher at every school at a certain level, it's going to give a comprehensive exam. They might do a project instead, or they might just cover the last piece of material. There are some things that are inherently cumulative.
[00:09:36] Evan Weinberger: Like math, it's really hard to move on to the next concept if you haven't mastered this one. , And any holes or gaps are gonna creep up over and over and over again. So do final stretch assessment, for all those reasons. So that's my first tip. , my second tip really is leaning into organization and it's part of, that's physical, part of it's digital.
[00:09:56] Evan Weinberger: But you need to gather your materials, gather your old notes, gather any review sheets, review packets, any old quizzes, any old tests, if it's a comprehensive exam. , And then it's really important to make sure that you actually have the right answers. How can you, if you're not studying the right material or the correct answers, how could you possibly.
[00:10:15] Evan Weinberger: , Feel like you can do well, right? And feel confident that you can do well. , So giving, doing this with enough time where you can go and get those correct answers. You can collaborate with friends, you can meet up. Chances are you got this right, but I got that wrong.
[00:10:26] Evan Weinberger: And vice versa, et cetera. , And then get exam details. A lot of students skip this, but teachers in class and if they don't organically do it, you can ask them, what is gonna be the format? How many questions is it gonna be, objective, subjective, a mix of both. How many essay questions, some teachers will.
[00:10:42] Evan Weinberger: We'll give you three prompts and they're going to pick one. You don't know which one, but they give you three for the purposes of studying, right? , And so gather , that information, and that's really important. Make sure you have everything that's going to be on there, at your disposal, and that the answers are correct.
[00:10:58] Leah Clionsky: This sounds like a place too, where students could use some parents like. Involvement or encouragement, let's get everything you're gonna need to actually be able to study. Let's get all of your materials all together. Especially if you have a student who's disorganized. This is where like using the parents' executive functioning I bet would be a little helpful, at least in compiling all of the materials so you can
[00:11:18] Leah Clionsky: sit down and do it in an organized way.
[00:11:20] Evan Weinberger: absolutely. Those reminders are important because even, let's say it's the night before kids procrastinated. They have all these things to study, but then they realize. I don't even have everything that I need, right? There's some things that are at school or I didn't do well on, on these two tests, and so I don't even have the right answers.
[00:11:37] Evan Weinberger: And so it's not even possible. Even if a student is willing to stay up really late, stay up all night, it won't even, it won't help. Oh, you're gonna lose out on sleep. You're not gonna feel so good the next day. You're not. To achieve at your peak performance anyway. But if you don't even have all the right materials, then you, there's a ceiling to how well prepared you can actually be.
[00:11:56] Evan Weinberger: , My third tip is really about this study zone at home, right? Adults, we talk about having an office at home, and that's where we, that's where we do work at home and we keep our desk a certain way. We keep certain things in the drawers that we need. But oftentimes we don't think our kids work too, and their job is school.
[00:12:12] Evan Weinberger: They have a briefcase, it's called a backpack. They bring certain things home every day and just like you need an office, mom or dad, your kids. Need an actual dedicated place to study at home. And we know a lot more now than we did before about what , that we'll call it a study zone, what that zone should look like, and shouldn't look like.
[00:12:31] Evan Weinberger: So it should be, outside of the bedroom. Nothing good comes from working in the bedroom. We've been training all of our kids out of the womb to be tired when they're in their bedrooms. So either retention, recall, quality of work goes down, the frequency of errors goes up. , Whether kids realize it or not, that's not good.
[00:12:48] Evan Weinberger: The other thing that could happen is kids start to slowly untrain themselves to be tired when they're in their bedrooms and, you can do a whole episode just on the importance of sleep, right? All the things that happen and especially for kids. , And so then all of a sudden they do their work.
[00:13:04] Evan Weinberger: They've proved you wrong. , They do their work. It's high quality, they do it well. They retain the information, but now they can't sleep. So that's not good either. So nothing good comes from working in the bedroom. I generally parents. , When I speak all over the country at this point, they'll raise their hand and they'll say, we don't have a choice.
[00:13:18] Evan Weinberger: We have to work in the bedroom. Okay, that's okay. Just make sure that your back is to your bed and there's some natural light. , So the next piece , is the natural light. There's a lot of really neat things that happen right back here in the brain. One of them is the production of melatonin, which makes us tired, right?
[00:13:35] Evan Weinberger: And so through it, negative feedback inhibition, loop. When we see natural light, it sends a message right back here to stop producing melatonin. And so doing work near natural light, I know we've told our kids. Work before play, but now you can give them a scientific reason as to why that's important.
[00:13:50] Evan Weinberger: You'll be two to two and a half times more, more productive and more efficient by doing work when there's still light outside and near, near some natural light. Good internet connection free of unnecessary distractions, full of all the materials you can need within arm's reach, and supplies.
[00:14:06] Evan Weinberger: There's obvious things. Paper, pens, pencils, et cetera. Other things that are less obvious. Hole puncher stapler, a jump rope for little brain breaks, noise canceling headphones, water bottles. , There's , different things that you might not think of that would be helpful to have within arm's reach in that zone.
[00:14:22] Evan Weinberger: And just like you feel good as an adult when your car is clean, and all of us kids and adults feel better when your room is clean. , When your desk is organized, it's always ripe for better productivity, right?
[00:14:35] Evan Weinberger: So
[00:14:35] Leah Clionsky: is where there's a lot of arguments between kids and parents because kids for some reason do really want. To work in their room, on their bed with loud, distracting music and potentially a friend doing something unrelated like playing a video game. And I think sometimes that's actually where parents are like, it has to be in their room.
[00:14:56] Leah Clionsky: 'cause they don't wanna fight that fight very much. Kids will be convinced, they'll say, I work best under these circumstances. And we're like, there's no way. Nobody works best under these circumstances.
[00:15:06] Evan Weinberger: A hundred percent. That's a hundred percent right. I see that also. I also give parents homework a lot. When I go into a home, somebody on my team goes into a home, oftentimes they may have called the office, we're disorganized, can't even see the desk.
[00:15:19] Evan Weinberger: How could you get anything done? I walk into the home, I look to the right, and there's an office, there's a desk. Can't see it, right? I said, okay, this must be what you're talking about. The parents are like, no, no, keep going. That's my desk, right? So then I turn around and I give parents, some homework.
[00:15:33] Evan Weinberger: I told Jonathan I want him to do this before I come next time. But mom and dad, I need you guys to clear off this desk too. , We need to live by those same expectations. And those same principles also apply to you,
[00:15:45] Leah Clionsky: Yeah, it's hard to practice what you preach.
[00:15:47] Evan Weinberger: That's right. And then I said I cheated. I have four. My fourth is make a daily plan and stick to it. This is so important. Make a daily plan and stick to it. So decide on a daily basis what you're gonna do. And kids need to use a planner. I think we talked about this last time. You know the portals have three functions.
[00:16:03] Evan Weinberger: Oftentimes. There's what? Quizzes, tests, assignments, homework, review sheets, essays, what things are coming up that's due. , It tells you resources. 152 slide PowerPoint. Teacher's not gonna print that for every kid in the class, and so they'll put it online where you can access it for the purposes of studying, reviewing, et cetera.
[00:16:21] Evan Weinberger: And then third are grades. Most schools, and not all, but most schools have a portal where you can see a snapshot of how you're doing, what's missing, what might be late, et cetera. But it's not a planner, right? Two kids going to the same school. With the same teachers, et cetera, same age, same grade, everything.
[00:16:38] Evan Weinberger: Their portals are gonna look identical. That makes sense. They have the same assignments, the same requirements, but their planners should look very different. Okay? That's for task management. , So making a daily plan, actually writing something next to every class, every day, and getting into the even if it's none, right?
[00:16:55] Evan Weinberger: None right. And crossing things out when you're done, starring things that are due the next day, breaking big things down into. Smaller, pieces and say, I'm gonna do this part on this day, I'm gonna do this part on that day, et cetera. Making a daily plan, even in parentheses next to each item, I like to have students once they've, they're routinely writing in their planners, you can estimate how long each of those tasks are going to take.
[00:17:18] Evan Weinberger: And then kids start to get a better sense of time and how long certain types of assignments take and they can plan better and accordingly. So deciding what you're gonna do. When you're gonna do it. Balancing, studying with rest and relaxation, that's also really important. Sleep is really important.
[00:17:35] Evan Weinberger: And that playtime with friends is really important. I want kids to have fun. I tell kids I, I know, listen, I, I'm not a teacher, but I'm in academics, right? Academia. It doesn't mean that I want you to study all day and all night long. Like you have to be well-rounded. You still gotta be a person.
[00:17:47] Evan Weinberger: So ba finding that right balance of rest and relaxation. The latest research says we can focus a hundred percent of our attention for one minute, for every year of age different than it was 15, 20 years ago. So that's true for our kids. Your 15-year-old should be setting a visual timer, like a time timer for 15 minutes at a time, and then little stretch, walk around the room, 10 jumping jacks, whatever, sit back down and go at it again.
[00:18:09] Evan Weinberger: Or else efficiency starts to go down. And so find that balance, and then adjust the plan. As needed, right? So if you come to the end of the day, this took a lot longer than expected. , This last thing is not due tomorrow. Let's take a look at tomorrow and the next day, cross it out here and plug it in for one of these other days.
[00:18:27] Evan Weinberger: That's how you make sure things don't fall through the cracks. That's how you make sure that you are creating, realistic, a realistic doable plan from day to day. And it's really important to stick to it so that you create those habits and that commitment to yourself. Really means something. You break it once, not the end of the world.
[00:18:46] Evan Weinberger: You break it twice, that's rough. All of a sudden you break it three times and you have no respect for your own deadlines that you create for yourself. And so it's really important you make a daily plan. And then, and are committed to sticking to it. Kids can ask their parents for reminders.
[00:19:01] Evan Weinberger: Hey, I, I really want to do this. I wanna stick to it. I have a tendency to, do this. Can you check on me? And so that's possible. Parents can get involved there. , But make a daily plan and stick to it.
[00:19:10] Leah Clionsky: Yeah, it sounds like that's even where parents might be helpful too. Let's come up with a daily plan together about when you're actually gonna study, how long you're gonna sit there for, what you're gonna do in this time, and what subject you're gonna focus on so that you don't burn out, study for eight hours in a row.
[00:19:24] Leah Clionsky: Not anything anybody can do.
[00:19:26] Evan Weinberger: Absolutely. And then you mentioned, which is so right, not, we talked about how the same method is not gonna work for every, for every kid. It's really important to keep in mind that this is a process and some things are gonna work better than others. And you should be excited either way if you find something that you learned.
[00:19:43] Evan Weinberger: Works really well. That's exciting. If you find something and you realize that doesn't work, you can cross it off your list and don't do that again. That's valuable. Either one is valuable and the same method is not gonna work for everybody. It's outside the scope, I think what we're talking about today.
[00:19:57] Evan Weinberger: , But is related to studying. Whether you study standing up, sitting down in this room a little bit here, a little bit there, a little bit there on your own with other people, allowing time so that you can meet with your teachers for tutorials. I mean, they're teaching you the material, preparing the material, they're putting your test together.
[00:20:14] Evan Weinberger: What's a better resource than your teacher? ? But you can't utilize that resource unless you start early enough. , So start early. , Meet with those teachers, rework some of your homework problems, a couple of each type or category, rewriting your notes. So there's lots of different research driven ways to study, but again, not each one is gonna work equally well.
[00:20:33] Evan Weinberger: Some kids need to see things. Some kids need to interact with things. They need to hear things. Some people retain things better when they're walking around, actually, teaching it to somebody else. So there's all these different ways to study and not the same ones are gonna work equally well for each kid.
[00:20:47] Leah Clionsky: , Evan, when people need some extra help with this, when parents realize that they don't know how to study exactly, and they don't know how to guide their child, and they need staying ahead of the game. What is the best way for people to reach out to you?
[00:20:58] Evan Weinberger: So the best way for people to contact us, our office, 7 1 3 6 6 5, game, 4, 2, 6, 3. We're happy. I've got about a hundred academic coaches and tutors just out of Houston. Go into homes, work virtually, work out of our office, and help kids with executive function, organization time management studies skills.
[00:21:15] Evan Weinberger: Even certain aspects of social skills, the impressions that they leave on other people. We talk to students about where they sit in the classrooms, how they sit in their chairs, how they phrase questions to teachers, and really how they advocate for themselves. , And so they can reach out to us that way.
[00:21:27] Evan Weinberger: But even better, even if you don't need help right now, whether you're in a fashion history, travel. , On social media, go on Instagram and find us at S-A-O-T-G or on Facebook at staying ahead of the game. And we post very timely tips on a regular basis, just like the ones we talked about today. And those will pop up in your feed as well.
[00:21:47] Evan Weinberger: So follow us on one of those platforms. We have a wonderful newsletter on our website. Go on the website, scroll all the way down. You can add your email address to the newsletter. That's a monthly newsletter. With some really great information in there. , And then for summer is a really, really great time.
[00:22:01] Evan Weinberger: I know families travel and that's great, but we could be flexible. It's a really great time mitigate learning loss. If you saw trends and things, teachers were saying, Joey really needs to work on writing skills or really needs to work on math facts or really needs to work on reading comprehension.
[00:22:17] Evan Weinberger: Without the distraction of other classes, it's a great time to hone in on those specific skills as well as icy upper level and lower level SAT and a CT prep. , And then we teach some wonderful groups also on executive function, where it's bootcamp Monday through Friday, three to four hours a day.
[00:22:34] Evan Weinberger: Organization, time management study skills. Impression management. So that's the best way to keep in touch. Anybody , can also connect with me on LinkedIn. , Anyone who takes the time to listen to things like this that we do, happy to shoot me an email happy or shoot me a message on LinkedIn. Happy to try and answer a question.
[00:22:49] Evan Weinberger: And Leah, most of all, thank you to you for having me back on another one of my favorite topics. I really appreciate it. It's always fun and, um, love how we can help listeners and families in the different ways that we help them and even collaborate together. The situations benefit from that.
[00:23:06] Evan Weinberger: So thank you again for having me.
[00:23:07] Leah Clionsky: It's my pleasure. I'm so glad you're here. I know this is so helpful to all of our families listening. We all just want the very best for our kids. So thank you again for listening to this episode and , I'll be here next week. So join me again and we'll talk about another way that we can help you and your family thrive.