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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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