You can help your child to develop his/her
Multiple Intelligences just by spending time with them. The following are some
examples how you can help them develop specific areas of intelligence:
People Smart
Develop this intelligence by emphasising
and encouraging your child to demonstrate positive behaviour in their
relationships with others. Enroll your child in extracurricular group
activities and encourage them to invite their friends over to play. Help them
to understand positive behaviour by modeling positive behaviour. Children. They
will be polite if you are polite, they will listen to you when you are talking
if you listen to them when they are talking.
Self Smart
Help your children to learn how to set
goals. To develop this intelligence, encourage them to make a list of things
that they would like to do or become better at doing.. A few examples are,
places they would like to go, books they would like to read, activities they
would like to join, foods that they would like to eat, cars that they would
like to drive, or houses that they would like to live in in the future.
Encouraging your child to take responsibility for their belongings and actions
will help them to develop self awareness as will activities such and Brain Gym
and Yoga.
Maths Smart
If your child constantly ask questions
about how things work, answer them patiently and let them know that their
questions are always welcomed. If they have intentions to do things without
anybody's help, let them try to figure things out and foster their motivation
to do so. Encourage them to be involved in problem solving and critical
thinking activities such as enrolling in a math club or a chess club. Provide
them with games such as checkers, chess, or puzzles.
Word Smart
These kids love to read and write. Let them
share and discuss the books or articles they read with you. Encourage them to
write and talk about the books that they read. They will enjoy reading stories
to you or even acting out the story while reading. Have them prepare speeches
or enroll in drama classes.
Picture Smart
Provide opportunities for your kids to
motivate their creative imagination such as drawing, painting, colouring,
printing, designing, etc. Encourage them to join drawing and painting classes.
Provide them with comic books and pictures of cartoon characters and let them
draw the images. Challenge their creativity and encourage them to design
clothing, buildings, scenery or play areas. Provide them with puzzles and
things that they can take apart and put back together.
Music Smart
To develop this intelligence, encourage your child to join school bands
or choirs. Have them play an instrument at home. Encourage them to listen to
different types of
music. Have them study music and folk dancing
from other countries. Encourage them to write songs. Provide them with books
about musicians to read
Body Smart
Children are full of energy and many of
them are naturally motivated to play sports, dance or build things. To develop
this intelligence, encourage them to participate in school team. Enroll them in
sports activities outside the school such as basketball or hockey classes. This
intelligence may possibly be a good opportunity to stretch other intelligences.
You can provide them with books so they can read about their favourite sports,
teams or players or simply have them read the daily newspaper's sport section.
Enrolling them in dance classes will give them an opportunity to be interested
in music as well.
Nature Smart
Encourage your child to collect leaves, stones, bugs, flowers etc. Help
them to identify the types of flowers and trees in your back yard or
neighbourhood. Encourage them to learn facts about different types of animals.
Do outdoor activities such as camping, fishing and gardening with your child.
Watch National Geographic, the Discover Channel, or other programs that examine
wildlife, fish, whales, and other animals with your child and talk about what
you can see.
You can help your child to enhance his/her intelligence by providing
toys, books, games, software and projects according to their interests and
learning styles.
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