How to make your kid smarter? Part II

The parents have to stimulate their child when he’s just a baby.

If your child is precocious in many ways, there is no doubt he is a smart one! The fact that he promptly makes his first steps or says his first words is really a good sign. But you must stimulate his development at all levels: mental, physical, emotional and so on. Therefore, you must help him to walk, you must read him stories, let him watch non-violent cartoons, make sure that he interacts with many people (because this will help him communicate better), play quality music around him (this stimulates his creativity), show him your affection (this gives him a feeling of security and balance), talk to him more, let him imitate you because you, as a parent, are his most important role model.

You cannot and should not control your child’s whole life, but you can definitely influence it in a major way. And you have to start early! Because everything he’ll learn in the first years will be the foundation of his entire existence.

And this foundation must be a solid and a complex one. Your child has to develop a set of principles which will guide him in every action from now on. Teach your child to think, to count, to draw, to read, to play, to express his feelings and his thoughts, to be conscious at school. But take care not to limit his needs, wishes and abilities. Let him discover what he likes and wants to do. And if his path is a good one, trust him and let him continue on it!

Your smart child will definitely make you proud! Maybe he won’t be a genius, because this kind of development can also depend on genetics, as many studies have proved. But he will surely be a sagacious one, able to face many situations in life, and to find out and realize his unique potential as a human being!

Maybe he will not make a great difference in our world, but he will certainly know how to manage his life and to be a successful person. This is why you must struggle for your child to have a good education and to develop as much as possible when he is just… a child!

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How to make your kid smarter? Part I

Isn’t this quite a challenge? Don’t we all want to have a smart kid? Oh, yes, we do! But how easy it is or, more precisely, what does it actually mean? Well, it is more complicated that we may think, but not at all impossible.

When we are talking about having a smart kid, we don’t usually refer to his IQ or to his level of knowledge. These aspects are rather used linked to grown-ups. When it comes to a child, everything is a matter of intuition. And this intuition is the child’s ability to surprise us in different situations, when we are puzzled by his rapid, new and smart reaction for a certain fact, or when we are bewildered by his fresh answer to a question, or by his simple and curious advice which seemed impossible for us to reach.

In order to have a smarter child, we have to stimulate his interest for everything in this world. He is always eager to find out new things. And we have to make sure that we don’t inhibit this childish and precious quality!

So what can we do? Well, we can excite his capacity of thinking, of filtering the reality or of analyzing facts and people. We must listen to our children. We must question and explain them all sorts of things. We must give them the correct answers when necessary. We must teach our children to speak properly, to be polite with every person they encounter and to be friendly and generous with other kids. These are common sense aspects, we all know them! That’s for sure!

Recycling the environment - Part II

The child has the capacity to learn to recycle plastic, paper and glass. And you can be his teacher. You can assure your child some short sessions of ecological education. By the power of example, the little ones adopt the behavior of grown-ups. They are fascinated by the adult activities and even by the idea of becoming or acting like a grown-up. Tell your child about separate waste collection, teach him to use the recycle bins when he is outdoors, and to save energy and water at home. Tell your child that, without taking all these measures, the world will become ugly and poor and people will be very sad. Make your child aware of the bad impact of not recycling.

You, as an adult, should realize which are the positive aspects of protecting our environment. Recycling means saving. The quantity of waste reduces, so our earth is cleaner, because the pollution level goes down. Recycling means conserving the natural resources, which prevents the nature destruction. And last, but not least, the recycling process is cheaper than the production of materials (1).

It is very important for us to live in a clean and safe world. It is very important to be able to take your child for a Saturday walk in a beautiful park, or to organize a picnic with your family and to enjoy some fresh air in the middle of the nature. Take into consideration the fact that, for paper production, trees are being sacrificed. And, therefore, we have less oxygen, and our planet is not so green anymore.

Every green gesture, little as it may be, made by you, your child or by any other man, extends the life and health of our planet. Moreover, protecting the environment is a way of respecting the earth and all other people, but it is also a common-sense proof. After all, it is an equally ecological and ethical principle that can help us save the Earth.

Note: National Recycling Coalition, “Economic Recycling Benefits and Facts”. Last accessed on 14th of March, 2010 at < http://www.recycling-revolution.com/recycling-benefits.html >