9 Guidelines to Make Kids Smart

News Health Articles - 9 Guidelines to Make Kids Smart. Children intelligent who are affected by the environment or nurture that support the child to always think and act intelligently. Not only nutritious foods, some easy ways are also important for mental guiding and physical development of children until he was an adult.

Indeed there is no single recipe for making a child has an High IQ(Intelligent Quotient). Especially today many educators are also always stresses the importance of Emotional Quotient(EQ) is not only IQ as a boy stock to become a mature person as an adult.

Here are 9 Guidelines to Make Kids Smart as quoted from thedailybeast.com, Thursday(January 5, 2012):

1. Stay away Kids from Watching TV habit

30 percent of children under age 2 have a television in his bedroom. And 59 percent of children under the age of 2 years watch TV two hours a day.

Benefits of watching TV for babies is unknown, but the TV known to damage mental skills and waste of time for brain development that should be spent by talking with others

2. Give your child breastfeeding

Six years old who were continued breastfed while infants, his IQ test score higher 5 percent than 6 years old children who are not breastfed.

This conclusion is based on research which was followed by two groups of new mothers in Belarus and their children.

The first thing a mother can do to raise a child smarter is by breastfeeding. Humans have a greater percentage of fat compared to cow's milk is needed to protect brain cells.

3. Learn self control or patient

Children who are able to delay gratification 15 times longer than his friends and be more patient scored 210 points higher on the SAT (Scholastic Assessment Test).

Children who can wait 15 minutes before eating the first cake scored 210 points higer on SAT test than him who can not wait more than a minute. Genius is not much to related with IQ, but related to executive functions.

4. Fill your home with book

Children who grew up in a house containing at least 500 books have the possibility of graduating high school 36 percent higher and 19 percent more likely to graduate from college than children raised in homes that contained only a few or even no book store.

Parent who read to their children show that reading is an interesting activity, fun, and useful.

5. Avoid obesity in children

Chubby kids scored 11 percent lower on reading tests than children with normal weight.

Scientist at Temple University found that high school students who are overweight have lower achievement than their peers who had normal weight, and more often absent and late for school.

6. Join the preschool program

Children who follow the preschool program 52 percent more likely graduate high school than who does not follow the preschool program.

At the age of 27 years, the preschool group five times more many who have their own homes than non preschool groups. At age 40, non preschool group was arrested on drug charges eight times more than the preschool alumni, and two time more frequent physical attacks.

7. Expand the children hear new vocabulary

Children in families receiving social assistance to hear the words almost four times less per year than children fro professional class families.

The researchers revealed that the more words that are heard, the greater vocabularies and higher academic achievement.


8. Learning foreign language

Children who learn a foreign language for two years SAT scores 14 percent higher than children who have never studied a foreign language.

The value of verbal students who learn a foreign language for four or five years higher than verbal scores of students who learn another lesson for four or five years.

9. Limit computer games or video games


Student who spent more than two hours a day playing computer and video game get exam score lower than 9.4 percent of students who no longer play such games.

Playing video games excessively can interfere with the school like other activities which too much done such as reading for pleasure, play outside, sleep, or interact directly with friends and family.