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When some parents think of high-achieving or gifted students, what comes to mind is a child who shines in every aspect of life – one who can be expected to get straight A’s in school, have tons of friends, and be a star in sports. The idea is, if you’re smart, you’re smart, and you [...]
As a parent, you’re probably aware that many schools offer special classes or other services for kids that are identified as intellectually “gifted”. But how do schools go about identifying who to test and who needs gifted program services in order to flourish? Not all bright children are gifted, and not all gifted children are [...]
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 advantage academically. After all, these tests are designed to predict school success. The skills tapped by IQ tests, including [...]
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. Moreover, many television programs are pushing the limits of good taste and decency. Some parents, who worry that their children are being exposed to violence and [...]
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 [...]