reading, experience ie.. getting outside in many environments, music ie.. radio and musical toys, interacting with others ie... daycares/parks with other children, many toys of various colours? If you were to choose only one which do you believe would make a child smarter than all the rest?
What makes more intelligence
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papasmerf said:
unfortunatly children do not have that yet as they will still reach for that hot pot on the stove until they really understand the word hot.
to be honest, there's no one thing that would make a child smarter than all the rest. Different activities develop different parts of the brain. playing music makes a child creative and think faster..... reading gives them the ability to think and juggle ideas ..... chinese writing makes them good at math... oops did i say that? well thats probably true because so many asians who can write chinese are good at math/engineering... so are indians who can write in hindi. 
art makes a child more creative which is also important if you want the child to become an inventor, a revolutionist ... think Leonardo Da Vinci who was talented in every field
but out of those you mentioned I'd go with reading... but its best to aim for a balance so all areas of the brain are developed
one thing for sure, disclipline them and make them work and do things that develop their brain to the full potential... sure they need to have fun while doing it.... but don't let them play video games all day
art makes a child more creative which is also important if you want the child to become an inventor, a revolutionist ... think Leonardo Da Vinci who was talented in every fieldbut out of those you mentioned I'd go with reading... but its best to aim for a balance so all areas of the brain are developed
one thing for sure, disclipline them and make them work and do things that develop their brain to the full potential... sure they need to have fun while doing it.... but don't let them play video games all day
Jade4u said:
To all parents
Spend time with your kids.
Read to them as they grow and teach them. If you wait for the school systems to teach you have lost them.
Use your knowledge and trust to mold them into gentle people. If you do not you might be burring them
I have read a bunch about this. The conclusion seems to be that a stimulating learning environment is most important, though intelligence seems to be largely predetermined, not much can move someone's IQ up or down.
Lots of adult conversation to hear and be involved in is important also.
Lots of adult conversation to hear and be involved in is important also.
Treating them like people and not possessions.
That would include:
-letting them make up their own minds (within reason)
-consequences for their mistakes
-listening to them
-talking to them
-answering their questions
-telling them the truth and not bullshitting them
-letting them express their emotions
-letting them have some freedom
-letting them learn by their mistakes
-not being overprotective
-allowing them to be creative
-allowing them physical activities
-allowing them to daydream and imagine
These are the things that will expand a child's mind, so they will be able to absorb more mentally, emotionally and physically
That would include:
-letting them make up their own minds (within reason)
-consequences for their mistakes
-listening to them
-talking to them
-answering their questions
-telling them the truth and not bullshitting them
-letting them express their emotions
-letting them have some freedom
-letting them learn by their mistakes
-not being overprotective
-allowing them to be creative
-allowing them physical activities
-allowing them to daydream and imagine
These are the things that will expand a child's mind, so they will be able to absorb more mentally, emotionally and physically
Jade4u said:
A child that is placed in multilpe environments allows them to develope the skills to communicate and to better learn and adapt to their current sorroundings.
in·tel·li·gence
1 a (1): the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations : reason ; also : the skilled use of reason (2): the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria
I think that people are born with an innate ability to learn, but that this can be increased by experience (teaching - whether books, stove=hot, etc). So I think all types of experience will increase a persons knowledge and their ability to learn new things (ie their intelligence).
1 a (1): the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations : reason ; also : the skilled use of reason (2): the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria
I think that people are born with an innate ability to learn, but that this can be increased by experience (teaching - whether books, stove=hot, etc). So I think all types of experience will increase a persons knowledge and their ability to learn new things (ie their intelligence).
I think you have to work with the direction that a child leads you in.
My oldest who is 3 1/2 has always loved books, she would bring us a picture dictionary and point to the pictures so that we could tell her what they were and she was doing this from the time she was about 1 year old. She knew the alphabet by the time she was 2 and not just to sing the song, but to point out the letters and say them, come to think of it I don't think she even knew the song until she was about 2 1/2. Yet she didn't walk on her own until she was 16 months old.
My youngest who is 1 1/2 loves books too but she has no interest in us reading them to her, she wants to look at her own pace, without being interrupted, she has no idea what any of the letters of the alphabet are even though her sister knew about 10 of the letters by her age. She doesn't really have any interest in speaking but communicates VERY well without talking and understands every darn thing we tell her. She walked at 9 months old though, a full 7 months earlier than her sister.
It all depends on the child, you HAVE to work with them.
My oldest who is 3 1/2 has always loved books, she would bring us a picture dictionary and point to the pictures so that we could tell her what they were and she was doing this from the time she was about 1 year old. She knew the alphabet by the time she was 2 and not just to sing the song, but to point out the letters and say them, come to think of it I don't think she even knew the song until she was about 2 1/2. Yet she didn't walk on her own until she was 16 months old.
My youngest who is 1 1/2 loves books too but she has no interest in us reading them to her, she wants to look at her own pace, without being interrupted, she has no idea what any of the letters of the alphabet are even though her sister knew about 10 of the letters by her age. She doesn't really have any interest in speaking but communicates VERY well without talking and understands every darn thing we tell her. She walked at 9 months old though, a full 7 months earlier than her sister.
It all depends on the child, you HAVE to work with them.
