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.

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. Don’t read to your kids, read with them: Got a little one who is learning to read? Don’t 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.

4. Good Sleep correlates grades: Missing an hour of sleep turns a sixth grader’s 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.

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, it’s 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 it’s better to give it to them while they study then when they’re

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.

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 it’s a negative but more often than not, it’s 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.