Start Them Young – A Parent’s Guide to Developing Children’s Brain Power

Building brain power is like building muscle: the more you use it, the more you improve. The same goes for memory training.

In this age of information explosion, it is very useful to start memory training early and prepare your children to face future tasks with improved performance. Although life is more hectic these days, the brain is such a powerful machine that it can definitely keep up – the secret is to pay attention.

Teach your children to focus, not only on the information they need to remember, but also to do homework thinking all the time. These prevent them from unnecessary memory leak. Help them develop their brain power by following this step-by-step guide.

1. Repeat, repeat, repeat. Sometimes children forget easily because the things they do at a young age are often routine, which can be classified as mindless chores. Help them store routine activities in their brain memory by saying them out loud as you do them. This also helps limit distraction. Applied to introductions, if you can’t repeat it during the conversation, repeat it while walking away.

2. Try fragmenting. Have you ever noticed how we recite the phone number in snippets? Instead of saying 2, 3, 7, 0, 4, 9, 0, we say 23, 70, 490. This is because the brain can process so much information at once that it’s certainly not a problem to put the pieces together. Teach this strategy to your children to help them remember more information better.

3. Get meaning. One of the reasons why children, or people in general, forget is that the information they are trying to memorize means nothing to them. So help your kids develop brain power and avoid this trap by giving meaning to words. Instead of memorizing a random list, try to find some order and create meaning through mnemonics.