How to raise a smart baby
A healthy and happy baby, that?s what all parents want. But secretly, many of us also hope our little bundle of joy grows up to be whip-smart, too. Did you play Mozart to your belly during your pregnancy" Decorate the nursery with stimulating shapes and colours" Before the educational benefits of Baby Einstein videos were debunked by studies, many parents turned to TV screens for baby entertainment with a side of enrichment. But there are easier, and more instinctual, everyday ways to make sure your baby is learning.
We can?t promise you?ll have a tiny genius on your hands after trying these ideas out, but we do know that any little thing done to support your baby?s brain development is beneficial. (And don?t worry, it isn?t time to break out the flash cards?yet.) Joyful play
If you want your child to be an engaged and enthusiastic learner, help him develop optimal levels of dopamine in his brain, says child psychotherapist Margot Sunderland, director of the Centre for Child Mental Health in London, England, and author of The Science of Parenting. The way to do that is to have lots of time at his level (playing down on the floor or on the bed) and to use energetic commentary.
If your child is bopping away in a bouncer you might say, ?Wow! You?re jumping so high! Look at you go!? offers Sunderland. ?If you just remained silent, the dopamine would very quickly fall in the child, and they?d probably give up,? she says. Children who have built up ideal dopamine leve...
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