Little children are superb learners

I was fortunate to be raised in a very intellectually rich and stimulating environment that my parents provided very early on in my life. My mother was a teacher, which has had a deep impact towards the choices I exercised when I became a parent. It was clear to me that the early years in a child’s life pretty much decided how the next 80 would turn out. Having quit a banking career with Morgan Stanley to raise my first born; I read voraciously on various topics related to parenting and child development, the early years, brain development etc. It was my constant endeavor to find ways and methods to stimulate my child early on in life and to be able to create a structure to the whole process of parenting, teaching and learning. It is then that I discovered and participated in the “How to Multiply your Baby’s Intelligence” programme conducted at The Institutes in Philadelphia founded by Glen Doman.

These courses strengthened my belief that brain growth and development can be accelerated in young children with the help of the right tools and methods. I came back equipped with some powerful insights about how a child’s brain develops and how the process can be sped up using the right tools and stimuli. I learned that little children are superb learners; they are only limited by how much material they have to learn from and how it is presented to them. Most importantly it firmed up my belief that intelligence is a function of environment and not heredity.

While trying to implement my learning’s with my child, I started creating a lot of stimulus material in the form of flash cards to enrich my teaching programme. These made at home cards enabled me to teach my child about a variety of topics be it music, art, world leaders, inventors and so on. Apart from imparting knowledge, these flashcards were a great tool to build my toddlers vocabulary and to stimulate his visual pathway, all of which contributed to the process of brain development. It was to my own astonishment that at age 2 my child was able to identify world flags, talk about world leaders and engaged in conversation that would take most adults by surprise. As Glen Doman once said “The human brain is unique in that it is the only container of which it can be said that the more you put into it, the more it will hold. ”