We recently withdrew my six year-old son from public school and began educating him at home. There are several reasons, both for him and his sister, but a big one is that he has a lot of difficulty with auditory learning, and teachers give a lot of auditory instructions.

We've read about different learning styles and incorporate them as much as possible, but everything we've read about learning styles talks about playing to the child's strengths, and nothing about developing their weaknesses. In order for our son to succeed in college and/or a job he's going to need to get a lot better at following verbal instructions.

What techniques can we use to help our son improve at auditory learning? How much time should we spend on that versus playing to his strengths?

We recently withdrew my six year-old son from public school and began educating him at home. There are several reasons, both for him and his sister, but a big one is that he has a lot of difficulty with verbal learning, and teachers give a lot of verbal instructions.

We've read about different learning styles and incorporate them as much as possible, but everything we've read about learning styles talks about playing to the child's strengths, and nothing about developing their weaknesses. In order for our son to succeed in college and/or a job he's going to need to get a lot better at following verbal instructions.

What techniques can we use to help our son improve at verbal learning? How much time should we spend on that versus playing to his strengths?