Help!! Okay my youngest step daughter is 6 and she acts like she is 1! Her mom doesn't help her with homework or anything, so this summer my husband and I took it upon ourselves to try to help her with her learning before she goes into first grade. She started out doing great we were able to teach her several words and work with memorization in just a week then she just started giving up and now she has even started saying words like a baby again. Her sister was coloring and so she came to me and asked if she could "cudder" too.