Make Your Child Smarter

Subscribe now to BrainyZine to stay on top of the latest news on child brain development and early child development

By subscription only! You are receiving this newsletter because you requested a subscription.

1. Editorial
2. BrainyZine Sponsor
3. Feature Articles
4. Brainy Product
5. Latest Brainy News
6. Contact Us

Hi,
Holiday season is nearing and each one of us is eagerly looking forward to a month-long thrill and excitement. At the same time, we also try to remember and thank, the God Almighty, for everything we have in our life- from our lovely children, loving spouse, health, friends and all those glorious moments of our family life. Expressing gratitude to our friends, neighbors, colleagues and elders for all the help and assistance they provided us throughout the year, is an important expression in our life.

Parents can teach their kids how to express gratitude to their teachers and classmates, who helped them during the academic year, and to all those people who appreciated their nice and warm behavior. Above all, kids should also learn how to express their gratitude to their parents, for all the wonderful things they did to them. Gratitude is a heavenly expression that needs continuous practicing and perfection.

More often, kids lack the enthusiasm and feelings to express a sense of gratitude to their parents, teachers as well as their peers. How do you instill that a character of gratitude to your children? How can a parent make kids realize that they have so much for which they need to be extremely grateful? It seems that a gesture of thankfulness or expressing gratitude to others is a very rare incident. Saying a big thank you or uttering a few words of gratefulness from deep inside your heart can make this world a better place to live.

A kid who learns to appreciate what he or she has in possession will automatically understands the need for expressing gratitude. Reinforcing good behavior with a kind and encouraging word will make your kid understand the power of appreciating others and their concerns towards them. Kids who understand the pain and anguish of fellow kids will definitely know and understand the ultimate strength of expressing gratitude to others. This holiday season could be the most auspicious time to make your kids get involved in some simple community projects, which eventually makes them to learn and understand a number of community concerns and problems. Finally, the delicate issue of being thankful to others should be made mandatory throughout the year, and your kids must slowly learn how they can express their appreciation and thankfulness to others with love and affection. All the best!

Thought for today:
"Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them " - Oscar Wilde

Best Regards,
Andrew Loh
Andrew Loh
Publisher & Editor, BrainyZine
andrew @ brainy-child.com

Please visit our sponsor ad web site below. Thanks to our sponsor for keeping this a free newsletter.

Tackling Difficult Behavior by Defiant Children
Defiant behavior by kids is a difficult issue to resolve and a tough problem to solve. Parents need a different perspective and a fresh approach to tackle this unique problem. Identifying behavior problems and later finding a long lasting solution should be the top priority for every parent.

Three Important Tips to Overcome Defiant Behavior in Kids
Parents get extremely impatient and angry when they are unable to control defiant behavior in their kids. This could be due to a perceived lack of skills and knowledge of controlling misbehavior in children. Here are three useful and practical tips that will help you in controlling misbehavior displayed by your kid.

Reading: It's exercise for your brain
The Cabin May 21, 2008

When the final bell rings on that last day of the school year, the immediate thought for most kids is usually far from "Now I finally have more time to read". Our kids have been working very hard all school year, from book reports to science projects to math exams and when summer break comes, they tend to put a lot of emphasis on the word "break". An, I think that is just fine. Let the kids be kids while they still can and enjoy those summers off before they grow up and enter the real world that does not always come with a guaranteed summer vacation.

The Power of Play
Wordpress May 12, 2008

Play is rapidly disappearing from our homes, our schools and our neighborhood. Over the last two decades alone, children have lost eight hours of free, unstructured, and spontaneous play a week. More than 30,000 schools in the United States have eliminated recess to make more time for academics. From 1997 to 2003, children's time spent outdoors fell 50 percent, according to a study by Sandra Hofferth at the University of Maryland. She has also found that the amount of time children spend in organized sports has doubled, and the number of minutes children devote each week to passive leisure, not including watching television, has increased from 30 minutes to more than three hours.

Breastfeeding boosts kids' IQ
Yahoo! India May 06, 2008

A new study has found that long-term, exclusive breastfeeding boosts children's cognitive development. In a study of 17,046 children, the team found that breastfeeding exclusively during the first year of life was associated with an increase in a child's intelligence by first grade.

Your Child's Attention and Behavior Problems May be Caused by Nutritional Deficit Disorder
Health News Digest Apr 28, 2008

We love our children. We protect them from dangers of drugs, strangers, illness- anything that may cause them harm-but what about protecting the development of their brains? Most children are not getting the required nutrients they need for proper cognitive growth. From my own experience, more than half children I see with learning or behavioral problems have histories of poor nutrition.

On the Benefits of Breastfeeding
Manila Times May 11, 2008

There can be no better icon of motherly affection than the act of breastfeeding. Since time immemorial, breastfeeding has connected the pure and unadulterated love and affection of a mother to her child. Sadly, this loving and healthy practice has entered an unabated decline in the last few decades. The greater number of women today entering into the workforce has contributed greatly to this phenomenon. Even if a women wants to continue feeding her child with breast milk, most working environment now won't allow her to do so.

Subscription to this ezine is FREE and please feel free to pass this on to friends, colleagues, relative and see if they would like to be a subscriber as well! They can subscribe by clicking here

To date, fewer than 1% of subscribers have chosen to unsubscribe because I try to send out only useful and relevant information. The publishing schedule for this ezine is published every other Sunday (or Monday when things don't work out as planned)

Editorial Contact - General comments/feedback
Andrew Loh - andrew @ brainy-child.com

This ezine is 100% Opt-in and all email addresses are private and are not sold or distributed to any third parties. Our full privacy statement can be viewed online.

Disclaimer: This ezine is for informational purposes only. Please consult the appropriate professionals for more information.

Copyright ©2002-2007. www.brainy-child.com All Rights Reserved.