So the laptop comes out. Best private tutor websitesgoes into the search bar, and by tab six every page looks the same — stock photo kid grinning at a laptop, "book a free trial" button sitting in more or less the same spot. Telling which one's actually worth it takes more than a five-minute scroll past whichever three testimonials made the cut.
Little kids can't sit through a lecture. Ten minutes in, attention's gone — most parents learn this the hard way. Year 2 tutoring is mostly phonics, early number sense, and getting a kid confident enough to sound out a hard word instead of giving up on the spot.
By Year 6 maths tutoring it gets heavier. Fractions, decimals, multi-step word problems that need actual reasoning, not a memorised formula on autopilot. This stage quietly decides whether Year 7 feels manageable or terrifying, more than most parents clock at the time.