Your child is starting to doubt themselves. You're not sure how much you should help

Until now, your child has mostly coped well at school. Even with topics that other children found harder, they did their work independently and without major problems.

But in recent weeks you've noticed that something has changed.

The tasks take longer, they get frustrated more quickly, and you notice that they trust themselves less. A subject they used to enjoy is becoming more and more of a burden.

Of course you want to support your child as well as you can.

But precisely because it has gone well so far, it is hard to judge. Is this simply the normal learning process with a more demanding chapter?

Or do they perhaps need more help to get ahead?

You don't want to miss anything, but you don't want to take over too much either

You worry that the difficulties will grow if you wait too long.

At the same time, you don't want to get them used to you taking over every time it gets hard. They should also trust themselves to manage alone.

But from their frustration alone, you can't tell how much help is needed.

And they often can't tell you either. Why has to do with how they have learned until now.

Why strong students in particular suddenly get stuck

Until now, everything in class made intuitive sense, and the tasks worked without much thinking.

But a task is usually a chain of logical steps. If a single step or a foundation isn't in place, the whole task suddenly feels hard.

But precisely because it has gone so well until now, they have little practice in recognising where the problem actually lies.

That's why “What is it you don't understand?” often just gets: “Everything.”

They quickly feel lost and don't know how to respond.

In the end, this shows more and more as frustration, falling motivation and less confidence.

Simply ploughing on blindly doesn't help either

Because things have gone smoothly so far, it also often means they approach a situation like this less efficiently.

Usually the first reflex is to try the same exercises over and over.

But such an imprecise approach often only brings more frustration. Because they can't isolate the sticking point, it doesn't help to just keep doing more exercises.

Getting wrong answers again and again, or not knowing how to tackle the exercise, is hugely demotivating.

So in the end the problem isn't that they do too little. It's that their efforts don't land where they need them most.

The right resources make the difference

So an important first step is to isolate where the problem lies, so they can then focus on it in a targeted, efficient way.

But for that, they need resources that explain in full detail, step by step, how to approach the exercise.

And also the necessary explanations of the basics. So that any gaps in understanding can quickly be worked through and cleared out of the way.

This combination lets them understand exactly where the problem is and fill those gaps. And then check specifically in further exercises whether they now get this step right.

But all that frustration, stress and hassle doesn't have to be.

On the next page you'll see how your child can use the LuxEdu app to find out precisely where the problem lies, and how you can then work through it with our adapted resources.