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I was a private tutor for a long time. My market segment often leaned toward the "rather wealthy," although not anything like this. However, the struggle to m

I was a private tutor for a long time. My market segment often leaned toward the "rather wealthy," although not anything like this. However, the struggle to motivate is very real. Each child or teen (or even young adult) comes with their own package of bad coping skills, strengths and deficits, motivations (or lack thereof), and so on. Each one has a history. In any case, to my actual point -- discovering those motivations is one of the things for which I was paid. Often, children do not understand education. It has been a flat "do this" chore for them with some nebulous payout that will supposedly happen twice their lifespan away, when all around them they see images of people who did not go the conventional route to success.

rdtwo 5y ago
Do you have any tips for hiring someone like yourself for tutoring. Honestly I feel like I’d be doing my kid a huge disservice by not hiring a tutor but hiring a good one is probably key.
- at_a_remove 5y ago
  That would be a hard ask. I've had kind of a knack for it, I was helping other kids since grade school. What you want is someone who works for the child, not the parent. They should have a rounded education but also be willing to admit that they do not know something and must research. They should understand a decent amount of child psychology and how people process/retain information. Finding folks like that, I dunno!