Why some of our clients stop after just 1-3 months of Assessment preparation.

Obviously they would never admit this to me but I’m here to tell you my thoughts about why some of our clients stop after just 1-3 months of Assessment preparation.

It is important for you to understand that most of our clients will stay with us for the full 12 months of my programme and most of our clients will continue well after those 12 months have completed. This is because the clients that we wish to work with are the clients who know that learning is lifelong. Learning is not just to prepare for an entrance exam.

Our ideal clients are the clients who are willing to fully dedicate their time, focus and attention to their children’s learning. That’s exactly why even once the assessments are over, most of our clients will continue. We’ve had clients who have worked with us for 6+ years.

But as we work with more and more clients each year, there is a pattern that I’m finding fascinating. Here it is for you…

I will speak with clients who are delighted to work with me. Delighted to work with Creative Minds Tutors. But when they see that their children are not instantly making the progress that they believe that they should be making, they make the decision to simply stop. I hear a multitude of excuses ranging from ‘We don’t have the time any more!’ to ‘We’ve decided to not send them to the assessment anymore!’ to ‘He/she is too young!’ to ‘We don’t have the money to invest into their learning!’. These are just a few. I don’t believe any of these reasons.

Now ultimately, parents can decide to start and stop whatever they like. And that’s the beauty of the world we live in. We are free to make our own choices. But I think this is quite devastating actually. Not for me.

The reason they choose to stop after just 1-3 months of assessment preparation is because their children are not making the progress that they think they should be making.

In their minds they have some glorified idea that their child should just know their phonics after just two weeks of being exposed to them! That their children should just know how to count to 10 and identify numbers to 10 after just 2 weeks of being taught numbers to 10! That their children should just love reading after just 2 weeks of consistently reading to them! That their child should be able to answer complex comprehensions after just 2 weeks of exposure to them. That their child should know how to calculate algebraic equations after being exposed to them two or three times.

That’s not how learning works. Hear me carefully.

Learning is not linear.

And that’s important for you to understand so that you don’t make this mistake. I really don’t see the point in wasting your time, your teacher’s time and your child’s time signing up to something for 1-3 months and then simply walking away.

Fully understand that learning progress will fluctuate. It will go up and down. Children are not robots and they do not learn on demand - much like you by the way!

So if you’re going to invest in something. At least give it a chance. At least give your child a chance to make the progress that you would like to see them making. And by giving it a chance, I do not mean giving it 1-3 months. This is not enough time to see anywhere near the progress you imagine you should be seeing.

And if you think that’s how learning works, you are very, very mistaken.