Make your kid a genius
#15 Chess master at 4
Teach you child from an early age how play chess. It will enhance your kid's critical thinking skills, logical abilities, working memory and it is also cool to be good at chess.
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Chess master at 4
Teach you child from an early age how play chess. It will enhance your kid's critical thinking skills, logical abilities, working memory and it is also cool to be good at chess.
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Mozart effect
Listening to Mozart while pregnant or playing it to your newborn baby can be beneficial for the cortical development of its brain. It has been proved that listening to Mozart gives adults enhanced spatial memory that can last up to half an hour.
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Where's the baaaby... There it is...
Speak to your kid constantly. It does not really matter what you say. You can basically describe all that you do at the moment: "I am taking out your dirty diaper. I am throwing it in the bin. I am putting a new diaper...". Bombarding your child with vocabulary will be extremely beneficial for its brain development.
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Reading skills
Teach your child how to read as soon as possible. Studies show that early age reading abilities correlate with high IQ. So grab Moby Dick and start teaching it to your child.
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Breastfeed your baby
Researchers have proved that the longer you breastfeed your child, the higher its IQ.
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Run, Forrest, Run...
Running enhances the creation of new brain cells. So as soon as your kid is big enough to be able to run, you should take him play football or any other anaerobic sport.
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Friends matter
You should encourage sociableness in your kid. Arrange play dates from early age. Good communication skills are extremely important for the future success of your child.
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Music Instrument
Learning how to play a music instrument from an early age will give tremendous advantage to your child. It will improve its concentration, thinking skills, it will physically enlarge its brain. So don't be cheap and buy your kid a piano...
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Healthy diet
Make sure that your kid's diet does not consist of fast foods and sweets. Ensure that your kid takes the necessary amount of vitamins, Omega 3 fatty acids and that it eats a good amount of fruits, vegetables and meat.
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Smoking, Alcohol, Drugs
If you want your kid to be a genius you should forget about smoking, alcohol and drugs while you are pregnant as well as after that. Doing these activities will be detrimental for your unborn baby. The quality of your milk will also suffer.
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Find time for a bedtime story
Reading your kid before bed is the best way to put it to bed. Many parents rely on TV, however, reading their kids bedtime stories will increase their imagination, thinking, empathy and will give them an edge to those kids who spent their nights watching Jersey Shore.
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Buy your kid an X-box
You should aim to provide a stimulating environment for your kid. At first you should buy your kid toys that involve touching. Trains and Lego are appropriate. At a later age you should get an X-Box, Playstation or a gaming computer. Yes, you've read right. Computer games are actually beneficial for your kids attention skills. However, you should aim to buy only stimulating games with increasing difficulty.
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You Should Have Taken Spanish More Seriously...
Sign up your kid for foreign language courses as soon as possible and the more the better. Being bilingual gives you an incredible advantage to monolingual people. Multilingual people have much bigger brains.
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Young Buddha
Encourage your kid to express your emotions. Many smart people have emotional problems that act as an obstacle for reaching success. Speak to your kids from an early age about their feelings and teach them to be mindful.
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Encourage Curiosity
Your kid may have an IQ score of 150, but this means nothing if it does not have an explorer's spirit. Make sure that your kid knows how big the world is and has an access to encyclopaedias or internet. To provoke his/hers curiosity you can go travelling the world together.
