RAISING A BRIGHTER CHILD

According to theories, intelligence is not constant and therefore it can be improved. While it is concedes that heredity lays the groundwork for child's intelligence, it is the environment which determines the extent to which a child can develop his potential. It contends that regardless of inherited intellectual capacity or economic background, the mental development of a child rests largely on whether or not his parents care enough to provide him with a creative stimulating environment in the earliest years of his life, long before he enters his first classroom. Since the child spends his first six years with their parents, they become this first and most influential teacher. Parents were never taught to think of babies as intelligent individuals. A child will blossom in a warm and democratic home where his parents listens to him seriously, answers all questions with enthusiasm, corrects his mistakes and seek healthier ways of motivating the child other than fear, scolding, or physical punishment.