10 Steps To Make Your Kids Smarter

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10 Steps To Make Your Kids Smarter

• All we want is the best for our kids. We want to
  do everything possible to develop them in a
  perfect manner. To ease this process, science
  proved some steps that can help to make your kids
  smart.
• As per a research article published in Times
  Opinion, here are few steps that science has
  explored that makes children from babies up
  through the teen years smarter.

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1. Music Lessons Research shows that music
lessons make kids smarter. Compared with children
in the control groups, children in the music
groups exhibited greater increases in full-scale
IQ. In fact, music training helps everyone
young or old. A growing body of research finds
musical training gives students learning
advantages in the classroom.2. Health conscious
are smarter Being in good shape increases your
ability to learn. After exercise people pick up
new vocabulary words 20 faster. A 3 month
exercise regimen increased blood flow to the part
of the brain focused on memory and learning by
30.3. Dont read to your kids, read with them
Got a little one who is learning to read? Dont
let them just stare at the pictures in a book
while you do all the reading. Call attention to
the words. Read with them, not to them. Research
shows it helps build their reading skills.
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4. Good Sleep correlates grades Missing an hour
of sleep turns a sixth graders brain into that
of a fourth grader. A loss of one hour of sleep
is equivalent to the loss of two years of
cognitive maturation and development a study
explains. There is a correlation between grades
and average amount of sleep.5. Self-Discipline
is as important as IQ Dozens of studies show
that willpower is the single most important
keystone habit for individual success Students
who exerted high levels of willpower were more
likely to earn higher grades in their classes and
gain admission into more selective schools. They
had fewer absences and spent less time watching
television and more hours on homework. Highly
self-disciplined adolescents outperformed their
more impulsive peers on every academic-performance
variable, the researchers wrote.
Self-discipline predicted academic performance
more robustly than did IQ.
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6. Learning is an active process Our brains
evolved to learn by doing things, not by hearing
about them. This is one of the reasons that, for
a lot of skills, its much better to spend about
two thirds of your time testing yourself on it
rather than absorbing it. 7. Eating makes a
difference No kid eats healthy all the time.
But the irony is that kids often get bad foods
at the wrong time. Research shows caffeine and
sugar can be brain boosters. So if kids are going
to occasionally eat candy and soda maybe its
better to give it to them while they study then
when theyre relaxing.8. Happy kids are more
successful Happier kids are more likely to turn
into successful, accomplished adults. Happiness
is a tremendous advantage in a world that
emphasizes performance. On average, happy people
are more successful than unhappy people at both
work and love.
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9. Peer Group matters Your genetics and the
genetics of your partner have a huge effect on
your kids. But the way you raise your kids? Not
nearly as much. We usually only talk about peer
pressure when its a negative but more often than
not, its a positive. Living in a nice
neighbourhood, going to solid schools and making
sure your children hang out with good kids can
make a huge difference.10. Believe in them
Believing your kid is smarter than average makes
a difference. When teachers were told certain
kids were sharper, those kids did better even
though the kids were selected at random.