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Dr. Mel Levine's seven practical pointers to educate yourself on how to strength
Use Dr. Mel Levine's seven practical pointers to educate yourself on how to strengthen your child's mind and avoid potential learning problems.
1) Accept Your Child's Approach to Concentration
Kids thrive on doing what works best for them. So, if your son concentrates well when playing a video game or if your daughter likes to study with loud music, welcoming such experiences—in moderation—may be good for their mental and intellectual health.
Celebrate your child's assets: her remarkable creativity, his rugged individualism. Children's behavior often improves dramatically when adults stop making acts like fidgeting and daydreaming seem criminal.
2) Cultivate Your Child's Memory
Urge your child to master the tricks of remembering, and apply them to his schoolwork. Get him into the habit of visualizing information and making plenty of lists.
Long-term filing works best right before sleep. To foster optimal memory, encourage your child to call her best friend before she studies for her test, then go directly to bed.
3) Develop Your Child's Language Skills
Initiate discussions of contemporary issues and abstract ideas. Invite your child to elaborate, as long as she avoids conversational deterrents like "stuff" and "yeah."
Find ways to make language fun. Challenge your son to a Scrabble® game or a crossword puzzle race. Give your daughter a diary—with the promise never to read it.
4) Help Your Child Become Better Organized
Help your child get her workspace organized, without preaching. Advise her to talk through where she put key items, whispering their location under her breath repeatedly.
To get your child up to speed with time management, put him in charge of setting itineraries and timelines for errands and vacations.
5) Help Your Child Adjust to Slow Motor Skills
If your child has trouble with running, balancing and balls in general, have him pick just one sport and focus all his efforts on it. Allow him the option of total athletic avoidance.
Computers put attractive text and artwork in the hands of all kids. If your child struggles with writing and drawing, stress computer skill-building—and convince her teacher.
6)Encourage Your Child to Think Outside the Box
Heed your child's intuition for revealing implications for her ultimate career pathway. Your "natural born" cake-baker may be an embryonic cordon bleu chef.
Make a commitment to tapping higher thinking in fun ways. For instance, use watching a football game to prompt your child to think about how the rules work, to critically analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the opposing team, and to problem-solve.
7) Teach Your Child Strong Social Skills
Offer your child social tutorial support. Give her honest advice on nurturing her relationships with teachers and peers.
If your child craves and pleads to march to his own drummer, support and celebrate his efforts. A child willing to paddle against the tides of social conformity can grow up to become a brilliant entrepreneur or a courageous force in reform.
Children need to feel comfortable talking about their social setbacks. Parents should be sympathetic, open-minded and non-judgmental.
Adapted from A Mind at a Time by Mel Levine, M.D. (Simon & Schuster; April 3, 2002).
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