Last Saturday, I got a great opportunity to share about that topic. There were so many teachers and parents came to that seminar and I was so excited to share about this.
Parents usually want to have a brilliant children but the question is how? To increase children's intelligences, there are 3 things that are important to remember:
- Genetics: we could not do anything with it… we can call it a blessing
- Environment: including
- Nutrition: exclusive breast milk for 6 months and other nutritious food after 6 months of breast milk. The formation of organs and body will not wait for the food, so if the baby is not eating properly, the brain development also will slow down, so giving proper and nutritious food for your baby is a must.
- Stimulation: there are many parents said to me that it is useless to read, to play, to teach baby since they couldn't understand. For your information, baby's brain is like a sponge, it's ready to absorb much information from us, parents. When we give them information, it looks like they don't understand, but actually, they save the information in their brain and they will use it later when whey grown up.
- Psychological: baby's brain can develop in a better way if they live in a loving family, where they can be loved, can be hugged, can be kissed without any conditions.
- Balance brain, left and right brain can work in a balance way.
To stimulate our baby, we can use their 5 senses, eyes, nose, ear, tongue and skin.
- Eyes: try to give primary color for your bed sheet instead of pale color. Give decorations on the wall and try to give baby books, so that baby can see different color in this world. When they are 18 months years old, they can start to play "which one that is the same, which one that is different". Use coins to play with your baby, it's fun. Try to ask them to categorize small items, it is really fun.
- Nose: Try to put fruits in front of their nose and ask them to smell it. Different fruits can give different smell and it is really important for baby to know about this. We can use flowers as well, and when we go to the supermarket, there are many things to smell, try it… soap, tea, coffee…
- Ear: try to find hide and seek with an alarm.. hide an alarm and ask them to find it.
- Tongue: try to eat different kind of foods and from various countries. It will give a sensation in your baby's tongue when they taste it for the first time.
- Skin: try to touch anything you find, table cloth, fruits, flowers, rocks, stones, papers, mats, etc.
To balance their left and right brain, ask them to use both of their hands and feet. Swimming is one good example to do it, if they love to crawl, let them crawl. Don't push them to walk. Crawling is good to balance their brain because they will move right arm with left leg, left arm with right leg. That's perfect for brain exercise.
