My mom and I are both trying to maintain our French skills using spaced repetition apps, but she gets discouraged when she compares her progress to mine and I feel guilty about advancing faster, which is making our shared language practice sessions awkward.
More people experience this than they realize.
Intergenerational learning exposes painful truths about cognitive changes and creates guilt around natural differences in retention ability.
“Where Are You with Spaced repetition and the science of remembering?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.