My teenage daughter and I are both trying to learn Spanish - she for school, me for work - and we thought we'd use the same spaced repetition app to motivate each other. But she's progressing so much faster than me that our 'practice together' sessions have become a source of tension, and I can see her getting frustrated when I need more repetitions of things she mastered weeks ago. I want to support her learning but I'm starting to feel like I'm holding her back, and I think she's starting to dread our study time.
More people experience this than they realize.
The vulnerability of learning alongside someone you love becomes complicated when natural differences in cognitive processing challenge both the learning goal and the relationship itself.
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