Most parents don’t wake up one day and decide “we need a tutor” out of nowhere. It’s usually a slow build — a few off-hand comments, a report card that doesn’t quite match what you expected, a homework session that ends in tears more often than it should. By the time parents actually start looking into tutoring, they’ve often been sitting with a nagging feeling for weeks or months, unsure whether they’re overreacting or under-reacting. This post is for that