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How To Improve Your Baby's Brain Power

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Babies learn from their experiences. From the moment of their birth throughout their childhood, they absorb what happens around them, make deductions, draw conclusions about how the world works. Parents often wonder how much control they have over their babies’ intelligence.

There are a number of factors at play when it comes to determining how developed and intelligent your child is, but enrichment and play is a critical factor. Your baby will get the best chance at brain development if you stay engaged, introduce new materials, and provide your child with all the nutrients required to adequately grow and thrive.

Communicate frequently

The best thing you can do for a growing baby is talk to her as much as possible. Part of your baby’s ability to understand the world comes directly from her ability to express and communicate what she sees and experiences. The more words your child is exposed to, the greater their vocabulary will be as well, which means it’s important to expose her to a wide vocabulary as well as keep up a constant stream of communication.

Try activities like reading books aloud to her, introducing her to new people and even speaking in multiple languages if possible. Pointing out words on the pages can help her associate written text with spoken text and increase her chances of learning to read earlier.

Don’t be afraid to communicate with your child like a speaking kid. Many parents are tempted to resort to babbling or baby speak when they talk to infants, but using regular vocabulary is the best way for them to become acquainted with advanced words at an early age and for them to develop their communication skills.

One of the best ways to teach communication to your child before they’re old enough to speak is by sign language. Many parents find that children can pick up on sign language faster than verbal communication, and teaching children to communicate through sign can enhance and improve their language skills, as well as give them valuable tools to communicate early.

Introduce novel materials

Keeping your child stimulated with new experiences, like insurance groups, is vital to brain growth and development. This can mean everything from bringing her along when you leave the house to bringing her new fabrics and materials to touch and play with. Providing tactile stimulation encourages her to develop an understanding of how different materials function, as well as gain greater spatial awareness as she learns how to manipulate and combine different materials and toys together.

In addition, you can educate her on new material by describing it as she plays with it, such as telling her how soft a blanket is or how smooth weathered wood can feel.

Work from flash cards

Helping enhance your baby’s memory from an early age is an excellent technique for developing brain power. Memory is closely linked with intelligence - the better memory children have, the more attention they can display in learning something, the more deeply they can understand lessons and the less frequently lessons will need to be repeated before they stick.

You can work on your child’s memory skills from a young age - as early as a year old - using simple tools like flash cards. Asking your child to make simple picture associations or identify which card they were looking at a minute ago is entertaining, educational and trains them to make and maintain associations early on. Babies will have more difficulty gesturing and communicating, but eye movement and hand motions can indicate that she understands a connection. Your baby is going to be relatively helpless for at least a couple of years, which means it feels like infancy is a little early to begin lessons and training. But your child is learning from the moment she comes into the world - it’s important to give her any advantage you can, and early education can be an invaluable step in the process of child development.

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