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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 asking more questions about how television might be influencing their children. Pediatricians can help young families make wise decisions about family media consumption. [...]
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 such training. Plus, the longer the training, the better the verbal memory. These findings underscore how, when experience changes a specific brain region, other skills that region supports [...]
Music has the ability to train our brain for higher level of thinking – the kind of thinking for problem solving, comparing and contrasting the similarities and difference between objects, analyzing, reaching conclusion, synthesizing, and evaluating information. In recent research, it was found that music can help in developing human’s spatial-temporal reasoning skill. Spatial-temporal reasoning [...]
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 that you practice your musical instrument an hour a day actually made you smarter! Recent studies had shown that your mother was probably right to [...]
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 1800s, there was no established method for studying human sciences other that empirical knowledge. Riddles and trivia were not institutional methods for testing scholars or [...]
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 mothers with untreated hypothyroidism in pregnancy had IQ scores about 7 points lower than youngsters of women without such a deficiency, according to [...]
Most parents think that parenting only starts after baby is born, but current research is proving otherwise. From the moment you learn that you are pregnant, you can start to stimulate and communicate with your baby. Think of the womb as your child’s first world, so whatever he experiences in the womb will shape his [...]
All parents with a newborn should demonstrate to their baby simple sign language at the same time while talking to them. Two or three commonly used concepts like “drink”, “eat” and “more” are easy to teach and do. Why is baby sign language important? It is the easiest way for an infant and a parent [...]
What do babies know, and what are they capable of learning? These questions have always fascinated parents, and now there are some important new answers. Scientists are discovering that newborns – once thought to enter the world as blank slates onto which a lifetime of experiences was inscribed – have brains as sophisticated as the [...]