What makes our children smarter?

There was a boy named Richard. He loved to tinker with mechanical devices. As a 6-year-old, he took apart an alarm clock. At 9, he helped his dad fix the lawn mower. In high school, he spent hours tearing apart and rebuilding stereo equipment. Now, as a young adult, he is a sound technician for a professional theatre company. Richard's parents encouraged his interests at an early age, which helped him become a successful adult. However, this does not mean that he was excellent in all his subjects. In fact, he had trouble with math in school. But his parents identified his strengths, recognised the way he would learn better and assisted him to learn in his learning style, which helped him understand and grasp concepts faster. So, what can we do to make our kids smarter? There is a strong evidence which proves that apart from genetic factors, parents’ involvement with children makes them smarter. Although genetics plays a major role in influencing intelligence & cognitive development, advance research reveals that children who are nurtured in the most ideal environments tend to display superior levels of intelligence. How to create an ideal environment that promotes your children’s intellectual growth? Be it through words, numbers, music, pictures, athletic or "hands-on" abilities, children display intelligence in different ways. Therefore, as parents it is worthwhile to identify your children’s innate skills, potentials, unique intelligences and guide them to build on the same. Understanding the learning styles or preferences of your children – be it visual, auditory or kinaesthetic enables them to learn and remember better and score greater grades. As an anonymous observer once said: "All children are gifted, some just open their packages later than others." You, as a parent play a crucial role in kindling the latent talents or developing current by creating a conducive and experiential environment for children at home. How can you scientifically identify your child’s unique intelligences and his/her learning styles/preferences? Psychometric assessments is the answer. Assessments combined with experiential activities help you guide your children to become autonomous learners, and look at things from different perspectives thereby making them broad minded and open new avenues for learning. To know more Feel free to visit www.oscarmurphy.com or Email learning@oscarmurphy.com or call +91 99723 01142.