How to Multiply your Child's Intelligence (talk) - Janet Doman

SMART PARENTING CONGRESS 2012 - Raise a Little Thinker
Learning Snippets from Janet Doman, Director of Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential

Children learns more in the first 6 years than the rest of their lives.

Let children use all their 5 senses to maximize their learning experience. Often than not, we are stumbling blocks to that.

We are our child's greatest teacher because of the love we have for them, not because of our knowledge.

We have to enjoy our time together as a family because children learn most when they enjoy what they are doing. Social interaction (family) multiplies that. Singaporeans have to learn how to slow down.

Singaporeans tend to oursource the learning of our child. We have to get involved and insource this as much as possible.

5 Steps to Learning

Children have very short attention span so our way of teaching (long periods of time) may not be catered for them. We can teach in short spurts and small amounts of time.

We do not need to test the children to see if they learn. They will create problems to solve themselves. They play.

You can differentiate between an intellectually starved child and an intellectually stimulated child. The latter always asks and wants to know more. The former wants to do the same thing over and over again and not do anything else.

TV is not good for children.

Ipad/Iphones are great but beware of the radiation. Expose them only after 3 years old if possible.

Phonetics is just a means to learn language. The focus is to be natural and the child will learn naturally.

This Squidoo Lens is fantastic and also touches on some of the above.