My Focus on Family Life and Parenting

Secure and loving relationship with parents tend to be smarter (2)

Nourish young minds

The importance of giving your children a nutritionally balance diet cannot be overstated when it comes to supporting their mental capabilities.  When fail to feed your kids wholesome foods, instead serving overly processed foods high in  sugar and fat, it can potentially affect IQ.  In a well-published study of 1millin New York City school children.  IQ scores improved by 14 percent after additives, dyes, artificial flavorings and colors were removed from their lunches!  You can guard against nutritionally sabotaging your children by serving foods than can enhance their brainpower and mental energy, including citrus fruits, eggs, fish, green, orange, yellow and purple fruits and vegetables, lean beef and poultry, and whole-grain and iron centi8fied cereals.

Stay active, stay smart

Physical activity, including playing sports, boosts blood to all parts of the body, including the brain.  When the brain is supplied with freshly oxygenated blood, concentration, thinking speed and complex reasoning are all enhanced.  Children who are physically active as a matter of habit perform better in school.  There are many activities kids can do, most involving an element of fun (exercise doesn’t have to be something a child dreads doing); for example, team sports, martial arts, biking, inline skating swimming, dancing.

And how much is enough?  The American Heart Association recommends that all children age 2 or older should engage in fun physical activity for at least 30 minutes a day, plus 30 minutes of more vigorous exercise three to four days a week.  One of the most effective ways to motivate your children is to be active yourself.  Children rely on role models in their lives—and that’s you.  Be someone who sets the right example

Love matters

You can play all the word games you want, spend money on music lessons, but no one of it means much unless it happens with the right spirit, the spirit that say you love and value your children and believe in them   When children feel this, they flourish.