May 24, 2009 at 3:50 am | Posted in Artificial Flavorings, Boosts Blood, Complex Reasoning, Freshly Oxygenated Blood, Fun Physical Activity, Good School, High IQ, Kids Wholesome Foods, More Vigorous Exercise, Sports Playing | Leave a comment
Tags: Activity, Balance Diet, Biking, Brain, Brainpower, Capabilities, Cereals, Citrus Fruits, Dancing, Energy, Inline Skating, IQ, IQ Scores, Love Matters, Loving Relationship, Martial Arts, Mental Capabilities, Mental Energy, Minds, Motivation, Nourish Young Minds, Oxygenated Blood, Physical Activity, Playing Sports, Poultry, Processed Foods, Secure Relationship, Speed Thinking, Swimming, Team Sports, Vigorous Exercise, Whole-grain, Young Minds
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.
May 23, 2009 at 1:54 am | Posted in Constructive Pursuit of Things, Positive Thinking, Rich Environment, Younger Kids | Leave a comment
Tags: Brain, Brain Connections, Child Language Development, Complex Reasoning, Educational, Educational Storytelling, Environment, Fractions, Geometry, Group Singing, Language Development, Math Reasoning, Music, Preschoolers, Puzzles, Ratios, Rhymes, Singing, Songs, Spatial-temporal Reasoning, Stimulating Environment, Wordplay Games
Creating a stimulating environment
There are many ways parents can provide a rich environments that will stimulate their children mentally. Singing lullabies to your infant stimulates the development of brain connections, particularly during the first three years of life. Wordplay games in the form of rhymes or songs that you make up with your child encourage language development. So does using complex, multiclass sentences, such as “I’m going to the grocery store because we need cereal for breakfast.” As opposed to the simple, single-clause declaration “drink your milk.”
At least once a week, take your children to the library to read on their own or attend a storytelling allowances for shows that are positive and educational.
Introduce music and rhythm
Children should be given opportunities for the constructive pursuit of things they show an interest in. If music is one of these, encourage it. The younger your kids, the better. Research with preschoolers shows that enrolling them in keyboard and group-signing instruction enhances their spatial-temporal reasoning—a skill that helps with puzzles, geometry, fractions and ratios. Instruction in music also helps children develop in other areas, such as math and complex reasoning.
