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Covering Education topics, tools, hints and trends for teaching K-6 public and home schooled students.

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Learning to speak kid.

4 min readJun 11, 2025

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We’ve all been there. You’re sitting with your child at the kitchen table, looking at a homework assignment.

They’re staring at the page with a blank expression, and you can feel the frustration building — in both of you. You’ve explained it three times, but it’s just not clicking.

It feels like you’re trying to solve an impossible puzzle.

In my decades in the tech world, I’ve learned a simple but profound truth: you can’t run Mac software on a Windows PC and expect it to work.

It’s not the software’s fault, and it’s not the computer’s fault; they just speak different languages. Kids are the same. When a lesson isn’t “installing,” it’s often an incompatibility issue, not a problem with the child.

Understanding your child’s unique “operating system” — their learning style — is the key that unlocks their natural, built-in ability to learn.

So, what’s a ‘learning style’ anyway? (It’s simpler than you think)

This isn’t about putting kids into neat little boxes. It’s about recognizing their natural, preferred way of…

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K-6 Connect
K-6 Connect

Published in K-6 Connect

Covering Education topics, tools, hints and trends for teaching K-6 public and home schooled students.

Rich Brown
Rich Brown

Written by Rich Brown

Passionate about using AI to enhance daily living, boost productivity, and unleash creativity. Contact: richbrowndigital@gmail.com

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