Mr M's PTA

Hello everyone! It has been a bit of a week here, hasn't it? Between juggling my tutoring business, chasing an energetic toddler around the living room, and the general chaos of family life, I am feeling that familiar term-time fatigue. How are we all doing? Are we surviving the academic year so far? If you are navigating the murky waters of secondary education with a teenager, you already know the struggle is real. Add a dyslexia diagnosis into that mix, and the pressure cooker of GCSE revision can quickly boil over. Dyslexic teenagers often come home exhausted after a day of decoding dense text and staring at whiteboards. The last thing their fatigued brains need is to sit in front of another screen. So, I want to share something practical with you today. Here are ten highly actionable, offline, and ridiculously cheap life hacks to support your teenager's independent study and executive functioning. Let's ditch the digital distractions and embrace analogue solutions.