#learning struggles

Is anyone else in their mid-to-late twenties getting scared about that whole “your fully developed brain struggles to rewire/ learn new skills after age 25-ish” ? 

Piggy backing off of Jenna’s post about the awareness of competition on social media, this was my wake up moment recently.  This time of year is so damn hard for those of us with students who struggle or who learn differently.  Seeing everyone’s award pictures and honor roll posts can make it so hard to feel like you are doing right by your child.  I remember about 5 years ago coming to terms with the fact that a C is, in fact, just an indicator that your child is functioning and maintaining on grade level and at the end of the day, that’s exactly what we should hope for.  That they are on target and right where they should be.  Even though I know this and I am ok with it, it still stings when I see others posting about the academic successes of their children when school just doesn’t come as easy to my child as it did for me.  Not everyone has an easy path.  Keeping your head above water and being an amazing athlete and also a decent person is sometimes a bigger success than A/B Honor Roll. 

When you've been spending so much time trying to learn that one song on the piano and you finally get it right and you just-

Finding creative ways to learn that I’ll actually do and that are meaningful to me so that I can push through my executive dysfunction and actually learn some vocab.