Should I be worried about dd

[Jazzy1814]

My dd is 6 and in year 2, I’ve really struggled with home learning with her as she can’t seem to do any thing independently at all! I can’t even leave her to write a sentence, she never really seems to know what to write even after being told what she should be doing, she still gets letters round the wrong way and has pretty bad spelling. She was having one on one for maths at school as she fell behind despite us continuing learning during the last lockdown lockdown so I was prepared to have to help a lot with that but I didn’t realise she was struggling in English too. I’m finding it hard to help her with every single bit of work all of the time with a toddler at home too, he’s getting no attention and I’m feeling very sorry for him. Does this sound typical for a child of 6 or should I be worried now? My ds is on the path to being diagnosed with autism and now I’m worried dd has some learning difficulties also.

Is it that’s she can’t do it, or won’t? My daughter is 7, in year two and old in the year. She’s doing well at school but homeschooling is a battle of wills, so it’s kind of hard to tell. Huge drama if she needs to write a sentence. I’m pretty sure she would just do it at school.

Just trying to say home schooling is tricky and it’s hard to get a sense of their ability if you see what I mean. Might be worth following up with school once things are more normal.

And good luck with it, juggling with a toddler must be very hard. I have a year R son but can sort of get involved.

Hey, I had exactly the same problem with my DS (asd) who is now 10 and even my 5 yo seems to be the same. It's so hard this home learning when they won't do work independently, isn't it? How's her reading? I say little slots of 10/15 mins of 1-1 with her could be good. Some children just can't do long sitting work time. Julia Donaldson songbird workbooks are quite good. We also found Dyslexia goldreally good, their 'early intervention' programme will help with her reading, letter confusion and overall English skills. We found it really helpful and you only need to do 15mins a day. Hugs and Goodluck xx

Thank you for the replies. I called a friend who was having pretty much the same issue with her dd who’s the same age so I figure it’s fairly normal. I’m so proud dd for persevering in all of this and actually doing the work but it’s just so frustrating that I can’t even leave her to answer a few questions alone, after explaining how to do the work, while I fold some washing or play with ds. It’s all a bit of a juggling act. I’ll speak to her teacher tomorrow and see if she’s been struggling with this same issue in school, she had mentioned having to explain a task to her more than once, so I’ll see what she says. Xx