Scientifically Proven Method To Make Your Kid Smart

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How To Raise A Genius

We all want our kids to be smart. We want them to have every advantage in life, starting with good health and happiness, and hopefully a high IQ too. But how do you help train your little one’s brain and keep a toddler engaged with everything they’re learning?

Below is a list of scientifically proven tips. Everything in this list is absolutely possible, to ensure your kid will become the smart kid in class.

Start By Being A Good Example

Kids are natural mimics. As their parent, you are their primary example of good or bad behavior. Make sure to model behaviors you would want your child to pick up, like reading, exercising, doing creative activities, writing, etc.

Make Sure Your Little One Gets Enough Exercise

Getting plenty of exercise can help your children learn faster. so make sure to balance your little one’s studying with plenty of play and exercise time.

Physical activity increases blood flow to the brain, helping it work faster, build new memories, and learn new words at a faster pace.

Furthermore, outdoor activity helps children build up their spatial reasoning. Through experience with outdoor activities for example, it is easier for them to understand how different pieces of the world fit together. It is then easier for them to apply that knowledge to almost everything they come across in life.

Make Sure Your Toddler Gets Enough Sleep

Getting enough sleep is obviously important to your child’s health, but it’s also important for your little one’s brain. A regular, healthy amount of sleep will help your child learn faster, and improve their grades once they start school. As little as an extra fifteen minutes can make a big difference in keeping your child’s mind sharp!

Watch Their Food, But Not Too Much

You are what you eat, and we all know a consistently healthy eating is important to any child’s health. However, it also influences happiness, and brain power. However, there’s a time and a place for treats, and sugary treats might actually help increase your child’s attention span while they’re studying, allowing them to focus better and retain more.

Involving your child in meal preparation can teach them about food and cooking. It can also give them a head start on measurements and spatial reasoning.

Focus on Activities And Time WITH Your Child

Even the most educational of children’s TV shows and movies can’t beat spending time with your child, and engaging him/her in an activity. Reinforce the lessons in your little one’s books and activities by having them demonstrate what they’ve learned — it’ll stick in their heads a little better. After all — our brains evolved to learn by doing!

Don’t forget to give your child some time to choose what they’re playing with, since being able to do what they want is just as important to their growth as doing what you think they need do, is.

Art Is Important For Little Minds

Visual art and preschool crafts are important to building your child’s life-skills toolbox. By keeping coloring tools and craft supplies around the house, this will help to build confidence, learn about colors, and foster creativity and expression.

Give Them Music Lessons

Research has shown that learning to sing or play an instrument helps make your kids smarter, improving their scores on all sorts of tests and helping them retain information. The knock-on effect can last their entire lives, because music has been associated with slowing age-related brain problems. Music is a major key to raising smart kids.

Encourage Your Child To Understand Cultural Diversity, Language & Their Place In The World

It’s never too early to teach your child that the world is so much bigger than their neighborhood. Maps, museums, and multicultural events are a great start to building your kid’s awareness of the world around them. As they get older, you can also talk to them about the news and what’s going on at that time.

In terms of language — young children are much better able to learn a second language than even teenagers; the language centers of their brains can take on information much more easily for them. If your child is interested, sign them up for language classes. You may be surprised how quickly they grasp it!

Read With Your Kids — Not “To” Your Kids

When you are reading a book, make sure your child can see the words in the book and read it with them. This simple step will help your child learn to read faster than just looking at the pictures and hearing the words.

As your child grows, let them start picking out books that catch their interest; they’ll be much more engaged in the story if they’re allowed to find books that hold their attention.

And at every age, talk to your kid about the book itself. Small children can tell you what they see in a book’s pictures, while older children can talk about what they think of the story and the characters.

Build Good Habits

A high IQ is all well and good, but it may mean nothing for your child if they don’t have good habits and a strong work ethic. Research has shown that being able to buckle down and get to work has much more to do with academic success than natural smarts. As such, teach your child good study and work habits from an early age. The sooner they start, the more likely it is to stick, and the better off they will be.

Connect With Your Kids

This may be obvious, but talk to your children. By just talking to your child and asking the right questions about daily activities, they will start thinking about why they like or dislike certain things. This will give them a leg up on explaining things in a wider social or academic environment. Furthermore, it’s a good way to bond with your child, and any smart child needs that encouragement and support.

By connecting with your child on a regular basis, you stay aware of how long your child spends watching TV, or whether they’re too attached to social media or on the verge of stumbling into nasty corners of the internet. Monitoring your child’s time in front of screens of all sorts will help them learn responsible TV and computer habits.

Happy Children Grow Up To Be Successful Adults

According to Christine Carter, the author of Raising Happiness,“happiness is a tremendous advantage in a world that emphasizes performance. On average, happy people are more successful than unhappy people at both work and love. They get better performance reviews, have more prestigious jobs, and earn higher salaries. They are more likely to get married, and once married, they are more satisfied with their marriage.”

By raising happy children, you are raising them with an advantage over unhappy children.

How do you raise happy children? First ensure that you are a happy parent. Secondly — allow your children to play and have fun. Pediatricians and educational experts agree that playing is important because children learn through play. But you can manipulate their “fun” by making the toys hat educational.

One advantage that educational toys offer is that they can be equally as fun and colorful and interactive as non educational toys are. It’s like having your cake and eating it too, or killing two birds with one stone.

Believe in Your Child

This might sound obvious, but the best support any child can ask for is their parent’s love, support and confidence. If you believe your child can succeed, they’re more likely to believe it too. On the other hand, if you get down on them for failing or not doing enough, they’re more likely to give up before they start. If you want to raise a little genius, believe that they’re capable of being one, and half the work is done.

However, it is equally as important not to constantly tell your child they’re smart. By telling them they are smart all the time, you may reinforce the idea that intelligence doesn’t actually require any work from them. Instead, focus on rewarding hard work, helping them cope with failures, and finding new approaches to things they’re struggling with.

Do keep in mind that not everyone learns the same way. Your kid might prefer to see pictures rather than words, they may be a natural learner from reading books, or they may need to try doing something for themselves to fully understand it. Smart kids come in all shapes, sizes, and learning capacities — don’t get discouraged if you don’t find their best learning style right away.

Peer Groups Matter — Watch Who Your Kids Hang Out With

According to a study of Dartmouth College students, economist Bruce Sacerdote found that “when students with low grade-point averages simply began rooming with higher-scoring students, their grade-point averages increased.” The study concludes that scholars “appeared to infect each other with good and bad study habits — such that a roommate with a high grade-point average would drag upward the G.P.A. of his lower-scoring roommate.” [This can be found in the book — The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work.]

If you apply this theory to little ones or even adults, peer groups do matter. As a parent, you will want to make sure your children are hanging out with other kids who are worthy of being copied

Originally published at tulamama.com on July 18, 2018.