Does your teen have real plans for this summer? Or do they plan to lounge on the couch, eating nachos and playing video games all summer?
If that sounds more like your kid, then there is one major thing you need to plan for this summer, and that is . . .
Preventing Summer Brain Drain
Summer Brain Drain can also be called the Summer Slide. This simply means that if your teen or preteen has nothing to mentally challenge them this summer, they are likely to fall behind for the start of the next school year.
How is that? During the school year, your kid is constantly overly challenged to keep up with their learning, school, and high grades. Then all of a sudden, school lets out for summer break, and they have nothing to mentally challenge them ALL. SUMMER. LONG! Which means they slowly start to forget many of the things they learned and achieved the past school year.
YIKES!
For the summer, it is important to let your teens and preteens have some sort of weekly academic challenge.
Now, I'm not talking about doing an entire home school curriculum for your kid over the summer! A summer break is meant to be enjoyed! Plus your teen only has very few years left to enjoy a summer break.
I'm talking about just a little bit of weekly academics to help prevent the "Summer Brain Drain".
And since I am so passionate about your child's academics and learning, I wanted to provide for you a resource that you can use throughout the whole summer!
So, just for you, I have created a Summer Writing Workbook.
This Workbook is free to download and use each week.