Hi everyone,

My son is 6yo. and over the past few months I've found that he can't retain things that are taught to him. He is an exceptionally bright child, picks up concepts, figures out things on his own without any help. Developmentally there is absolutely nothing wrong with him whatsoever, has friends, is a cheerful and happy child. But this "problem" is with his english and maths.

When we were overseas (he had a complete break for 2months - we got back three weeks ago), he picked up the language in no time - using the right phrases at the right place, basically he learnt the second language in two months, just by ear. He builds things with no problem, like lego, ikea furniture etc but nothing "pastes" into his mind. Its starting to become exhausting! Anyone got any ideas what I'm trying to deal with?