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Is it good to be a gifted? This may sound like a strange question – of course being gifted is good… isn’t it?
It’s true that kids who score higher on IQ tests will have an [...]
I read with great interest an article in TimesAsia with titled ‘Superkids’. It profiles seven of Asia’s most gifted youngsters. Abigail Sin (10 years old) is Singapore’s most celebrated young pianist; Chandra Sekar (12 years old) from India is the world’s youngest Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, Ai Fukuhara (14 years old) is now training for [...]
Most of today’s homes have at least one television and many of these sets are hooked to a commercial cable system that provides a seemingly limitless number of programs. [...]
ARTICLE REPRINT • From the May 1998 AAP News, the official news magazine of the American Academy of Pediatrics
With new shows targeted to children as young as 1 year, parents are [...]
Harvard’s visiting faculty member, Daniel Goleman, the author of the highly renowned EQ book, has pointed out that the best place for children to learn EQ is at home. The direction and values of life are formed at home. The way they speak and act are very much influenced by their parents. Even though gene [...]
Those dreaded piano lessons pay off in unexpected ways: According to a new study, children with music training had significantly better verbal memory than their counterparts without [...]
Music has the ability to train our brain for higher level of thinking – the kind of thinking for problem solving, comparing and contrasting the [...]
When you were a child, did your mother make you taking music lessons that you always hated and was finding all ways to avoid it? Without knowingly, your mother’s insistence [...]
Although the history of riddles comes from ancient times, it was not until the 19th century when researchers began to analyze different theories in children’s IQ cognitive development.
In the [...]
Even a mild, symptom-free case of thyroid deficiency in a pregnant woman can affect her child’s IQ scores years later, results of a study suggest.
Children aged 7 to 9 who had [...]