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When family members enable each other's learning struggles

My teenage daughter and I are both struggling students — she has ADHD and I'm going back to school at 45 — and we thought we could help each other with accountability and study strategies, but instead we just mirror each other's avoidance patterns and executive dysfunction.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people with similar cognitive challenges are inadvertently reinforcing each other's maladaptive learning patterns instead of developing better metacognitive strategies.

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“Where Are You with Learning to learn — meta-cognition?”

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