Developing Children’s Intelligence

Written by admin on November 9th, 2009

At age 3 – 5 years children’s intelligence very advanced and complex, requiring a more appropriate stimulation to develop their intelligence, one of them playing.

According to Garry L. Landreth, founder and director of the Center for Play Therapy at the University of North Texas (UNT), play an integral part of childhood, a unique medium to facilitate the development of language expression, communication skills, emotional, social, decision making, and cognitive development in children. For this reason, the most appropriate method of stimulating the children is to play.

Stimulation provided to children through games is a good idea to follow the 7 aspects of child intelligence, as he had been presented by Dr. Howard Gardner, a psychologist from Harvard University:

Spatial Intelligence
-Helping homework or other activities such as sweeping or washing motor
-Playing the bike, hide and seek, or up and down the stairs

Interpersonal Intelligence
-Involve other children / neighbors the same age to play with your child. This is to teach children to learn to share and respect others

Intrapersonal Intelligence
-Drawing, to see the expectations or the surge of emotion when it was dominant in her
-Playing the role, such as playing the mother or father-figures of heroic

Logical Mathematical Intelligence
-Encourage children to play puzzle with more pieces
-Playing stacking blocks that have numbers or letters

Musical Intelligence
-Play the song of children, taught to memorize a song, and sing with him.
-Playing a musical instrument like guitar or piano, to wreak musical intelligence

Naturalist Intelligence
-Planting a tree together, watering and provide fertilizer together
-Feeding the pets like fish feeding while you talk about the things about the fish

Linguistic Intelligence
-Give the book already has a text (if your child able to read)
-If your child can not read, read stories and get your child to tell his experience about anything
-Encourage the child to find the symbols along the way when with you

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