Raising Smart Children the Natural Way

All parents want their children to be intelligent. Smart children are more likely to grow into successful, contributing adults. What are some things parents can do to raise their children's IQ's?

Contrary to what modern thinking says you do not need high dollar preschools and after school programs to raise a smart child. All you need is available in your own home.

Medical science has proven that breast feeding, the way God intended for infants to be fed, is the best nutrition to develop baby's brain. It will nourish your baby for the first year of his life. Do not rush feeding baby food to your child, especially those little expensive jars of pureed food. Give your baby your own milk, and watch him for signs he is ready to try table foods. His teeth and his ability to swallow solids will give you a good indication of when he's ready for more than breast milk.

Carry your newborn around with you, and talk to him all the time. Keeping him always stimulated with sight and sound will help your baby stay alert and learning. If you are busy and need to set him down for a period of time, sit him where he can look out an open window or through a screen door. Sit him in front of a fish tank, or under a mobile. Always give him something to watch.

Don't let your child watch TV for his first few years, if ever. Television is a passive entertainment, even educational shows. Your child needs to interact to learn. He will receive much more mind growing stimulation with a supply of Lincoln logs, building blocks, large legos, and a box of crayons, scissors and colored paper than a television can ever give him.

Fence off a safe place for your child to play outdoors. Supply balls, jump ropes, tricycles, scooters, wagons and other old fashioned toys children used to play with. Sunshine is good for his health, and exercise is good for his body.

Read to your child everyday. Buy good quality books; you can hardly go wrong with the old classics. Read your child books that teach a good work ethic and good character. Read books that take them into places they haven't been before. Read books that teach them the way people lived in the past. You will never go wrong reading to your child, and it will bond the two of you in the process.

Invest yourself in your child. Be creative. Give him a good healthy environment in his own home, and he will not need outside sources to make him the best he can be.