Kids Learning to Write

   Kids begin to learn basic writing skills the very first time that they pick up a crayon. Those initial scribbles help little ones to enjoy the feel of a writing instrument as well as the sense of accomplishment that comes from putting something down on paper.

Writing Stages
   There are a number of stages that children go through on their way to becoming accomplished writers.

   Two Year Olds: In the beginning their lines are typically uncontrolled and random, with children simply enjoying the process without working toward a specific goal.

5 Activities To Encourage A Love of Math In Your Children

Oftentimes parents invest a lot of money in thick workbooks to teach their kids math. Some children are open to workbooks. Others are not. If your child is bored by workbooks, don't fret. There are plenty of other ways to teach math - and they're fun!

10 Things I Wish I'd Known About Learning Disabilities

1. Trust yourself. Although his teachers said my son was fine, I knew in my heart that something was wrong: He skipped words while reading, spelled words differently each time he wrote them, and couldn't subtract to save his soul.

2. Trust your child. I knew my child was smart. But like many children with learning disabilities, he has strengths that aren't necessarily valued in the classroom — visual, spatial and musical abilities, good interpersonal skills, and a terrific sense of humor — while struggling with the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic.

Stimulating Brain Power in Children: Simple Things Parents Can Do

By Andrew Loh

Before you want to stimulate your child's brain functions, you will need to know and understand a number of basic activities of brain. Brain is a mysterious organ that can play an important role in your child's success. Structure ad functioning of brain in an optimal manner is a necessity to lead a life of contentment and satisfaction. Your child's brain works based on some core principles that are too important for normal brain development. Some of these are:

Stimulating Brain Power in Children

By Andrew Loh

   Young children and growing toddlers learn and develop every day and week by keenly observing the things that happen around them. An infant's brain structure will have more than a million highly charged nerve cells while a child aged 4 years will possess more than 10 million brain cells with their energetic and agile neurons. All these neurons are amazing structures that grow and connect with each other's in the confines of brain.

Helping Create a Positive School Attitude 10 Timely Tips for School Success

By Phillip Mountrose

 

   We all know how important it is for children to succeed in school. School is where they spend so much of their childhood; and the effects of school experiences can last a lifetime. Here, then, are some easy-to-use, practical tips that can make a difference for the kids in your life. Remember that any time a child experiences a positive shift in his or her school outlook, many other areas can also benefit.

10 Options for Reading Outside the Book

  
   Picking up a book on summer vacation might be the last thing on your child's mind. And maybe that's okay -- everyone is entitled to a break now and then. But taking a break from books doesn't have to mean taking a break from reading.

   There are plenty of ways to keep reading beyond books. The key is to tune into interests kids already have. If your daughter loves swimming, provide ways for her to learn more about this sport through articles, brochures, tip sheets, and even catalogues. Let a video game-obsessed child read instructions, reviews, and strategy books.

Enhancing Development Through Play

   

   Children use play not simply as a fun past-time or a way to amuse themselves for a little while but as research into the world around them. When they are born, children can do very little for themselves and know very little about the world or their places in it. As they play, children come to understand more about the world and themselves and develop the physical, cognitive, emotional and social skills that they will need to live independently later in life. Through quiet, creative, active, cooperative and dramatic play children get the chance to work on these skills and more.

3 Activities to Help Utilize Brain Power

Author: steve magill

   Increasing our brain power  is something not impossible to do. All of us are born with the capacity to learn and for most of us; we tend to rely on what is already given to us. But we can increase this capacity to utilize our brain

through certain exercises and activities. Here are some of those things that may be useful to you or if you are a parent, to your child:

Brain development with mental math

Author: Dhaval Shrimankar

   Children have an amazing ability to learn, but their vast brain potential is not always nurtured to the fullest extent.

   With the proper guidance and tools, children as young as 4 or 5 are capable of mastering mathematical skills and calculating ability that will yield benefits that last a lifetime.

   "Learning Mathematics with the Abacus" is a set of books offering simple, enjoyable instructions for using the abacus, an ancient calculating device that provides modern children with valuable mental stimulation and proficiency in mathematics.

A Child's Relationship With Their Grandparents

   

   Children’s relationships with their grandparents will differ widely. Some children will consider their grandparents as kind of substitute parents while others may look upon them as something akin to a fairytale – they hear a lot about them but haven’t actually laid eyes on them lately. Regardless of how often your children and their grandparents can see each other there are many things that parents can do to foster a relationship between their children and their parents.

Creative Play: Stimulate Your Child's Natural Talents

By Andrew Loh

   A critical aspect of your child's early childhood learning and brain development is to engage in creative play. Everyone knows that children learn by playing and mimicking things around them. This is the nature's way that allows them to learn, discover and master about so many things around them, in their house and school. A major part of the learning process in a child involves adapting to a number of learning situations and choosing the exact process to master those varying situations. Play is a state of child's mind. It is safe, pro-active, emotional, probing, inquisitive and learning in its nature. It also exists in the moment and during active hours of day.

Children and Problem Solving

   On of the most important skills that children need to master is their ability to become independent thinkers and problem solvers. The basis of all future learning lies in the ability to break down a problem into manageable parts until a solution is determined so building children's abilities as well as their confidence, is vital to producing children who are challenged, rather than frustrated, when faced with new situations.

How Art Improves Your Child's Development

Creativity and Children

   Many studies have been done in the past two decades regarding the importance of art and creativity in the development of children. Working extensively in the arts (visual art, music, and theater) with at-risk youth these past eight years, I have come to realize that visual art activities work on several important skills in a child's development.

10 Tips for Choosing Books for Children of All Ages

• Have children choose their own books as soon as they start showing a preference for one over another.
  
• Find the children's section of your local library. Get to know the librarian, who can be a great resource.
  
• Find out what your child is interested in, and help choose books that are related to his or her interests.

10 Tips for Parents of School-age Children

1. Read aloud with and to your child every day

•   Experts recommend 30 minutes a day
•   Pick books that are too long or difficult for your child to read on his own
•   Choose genres that your child prefers

 2. Create a print rich home environment

•   Include both books (and books on tape) and writing materials
•   Include newspapers and child-oriented versions of popular magazines     (e.g., Time for Kids, National Geographic for Kids)
•   Set aside a special reading area in your homeand make sure everyone uses it

Tips for Back to School Reading and Beyond

   Below are some fun and practical ways to make reading a normal and natural part of family life and encourage kids of varying ages to get reading-ready as they head back to the classroom and prepare to dive into books all year long.
    
   Book graffiti wall - Put up a piece of poster paper and label it the "Great Book Graffiti Wall." Have your children draw a pattern on the paper to make it look like a brick wall. Then encourage them to draw pictures and write recommendations based on the books they have read or are reading.

   Record your child's favorite book - A cassette recorder is one way to enable younger children to enjoy a favorite book again and again. Grandparents, parents, older brothers or sisters can record their favorite stories on tape or the whole family can join in and play different characters.

Activities for Kids Right- brain for kids (4-10 years)

Right- brain (ages 7 to 10)

    *  Find a picture in a magazine the child finds interesting. Use a ruler to section off a 3 by 3-inch part of the image and then cut away the rest.
    * Encourage the child’s right-brain to take over and make creative decisions through recreating the small section of the picture. When children are not sure of what they are drawing Carneiro finds the left-brain is tricked into thinking the activity is not worth its time, and allows the right brain to take charge.
    * Instead of using a pencil to sketch out the drawing first, offer the child oil pastels for drawing along with a 9 by 9-inch piece of drawing paper. Play music while he is working and offer him support in creating his artwork as needed.

Right Brain vs. Left Brain: Children & Creativity

    Most young children are excited about doing a creative activity, while others rush through a project or are quick to complain, “I can’t draw.” The child that doodles while listening to directions instead of attentively keeping eye contact frustrates many a teacher. Some adults might struggle to understand their child’s quirky obsession with wearing matching clothing at all times. This actually has more to do with the brain than one might think. A young child’s brain is simply letting its dominant side take over, and not blending with the other in order to reach its full potential.

Cause of ADHD?

    Scientists are not sure what causes ADHD, although many studies suggest that genes play a large role. Like many other illnesses, ADHD probably results from a combination of factors. In addition to genetics, researchers are looking at possible environmental factors, and are studying how brain injuries, nutrition, and the social environment might contribute to ADHD.

Genes.
     Inherited from our parents, genes are the "blueprints" for who we are. Results from several international studies of twins show that ADHD often runs in families. Researchers are looking at several genes that may make people more likely to develop the disorder. Knowing the genes involved may one day help researchers prevent the disorder before symptoms develop. Learning about specific genes could also lead to better treatments.

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

What is attention deficit hyperactivity disorder?

     Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common childhood disorders and can continue through adolescence and adulthood. Symptoms include difficulty staying focused and paying attention, difficulty controlling behavior, and hyperactivity (over-activity).

ADHD has three subtypes:

Brain-based Learning

Definition

This learning theory is based on the structure and function of the brain. As long as the brain is not prohibited from fulfilling its normal processes, learning will occur.

Discussion

People often say that everyone can learn. Yet the reality is that everyone does learn. Every person is born with a brain that functions as an immensely powerful processor. Traditional schooling, however, often inhibits learning by discouraging, ignoring, or punishing the brain’s natural learning processes.

Language Development in Young Children

 by Donald G. Jamieson

CEO and Scientific Director, Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network

    A child’s first words are eagerly anticipated by parents, who proudly celebrate the astonishingly rapid progress we see as most children acquire new words and new language skills during their first years of life.

    While spoken language comes naturally to most children, all children make errors of various kinds, and language learning unfolds over our entire lifetimes. Thus, for a time, I called my older sister “Buff” – rather than by her real name, Beth. I could hear the final “th” sound but I just couldn’t get my mouth to pronounce this.

Intellectual development of school children

Intellectual development of school children. Can be classified according to age as follows.

Age 6 years.            

     Children this age can see the difference between objects such as differences in various patterns. They understand the meaning behind the front top and bottom around them, but do not understand the near term or distant locations. Children this age still think about today. But think about their own stories in it. Of attention to short-term. Interest in activities, but do not satisfy the success of such activities. Children will actively work they like. But when all attention now to undo. They do not care that the work is successful or not.

Intellectual Development - school- aged children

      Understanding the development of the intelligence of school- aged children.

It is important for planning and preparation for learning and skills development of your baby.  

      School-aged children is to prepare the physical ,social and emotional intelligence. If children are in an environment that promotes development.

Their environment allows them to adapt to new experiences or new environment seamlessly. Children in this age is the age of learning. It will begin to understand what is close to the first, then learn from the experience that or different.

       When children start learning. They will learn new experiences. From the incident. It will add or enhance intellectual development of children. Because children participating will receive a stimulating curiosity The curious will be important to allow children to develop intelligence, language and emotions. If children can learn and have enough experience. They can think and solve problems themselves.

12 ways to create habit of learning for your child.

The main problem of study, most children are caused by two major things are. 

     The First one is Children not in the habit of learning. 

     The Second Kids do not know the time to share a book. 

      It is therefore important that you father mother to help build the habit of learning for children. These may take the start in earnest about 1 -2 weeks, but used consistently. Will help to build character. The techniques that will help create a character that follows.

Five easy activities that encourage children to practice thinking.

     Thinking is more creativity on both the child and others. The children will understand and have skills that a good idea. Model requires the experiences of parents. These activities as a. As a guide. Invite the children to apply thought.

Introduction

Education2Kid is a blog offering information. Tips and techniques helpful to parents who have children aged between 3-12 years to plan for the future of education for your child.