How Do You Raise An Intelligent Child?
• Read to and with your child. Reading helps develop important communication skills, vocabulary, and grammar. Try reading with your child everyday at least once. It’s best to start doing this when they are babies. Make reading fun for your child, use different voices and sounds to keep their attention. Encourage your child to love reading on their own, many teens and adults have trouble with spelling, grammar, and punctuation simply because they don’t like to read; so teach your kids to love it! Encourage your child to read a little bit each day, and to discuss what they have read with you. Schedule time for regular trips to the library. • Limit your child from watching television. Your child should not watch television if he or she is under the age of two, this stunts mental development. If your child is older than two, limit the amount of television they watch to one hour, or two at the most. Make sure that your child watches shows appropriate for them. Have them watch shows that sti