How to Stimulate Your Child Intelligence?

At age 3 – 5 years children intelligence very advanced and complex, requiring a more appropriate stimulation to develop their intelligence, one of them playing.

According to Garry L. Landreth, founder and director of the Center for Play Therapy at the University of North Texas (UNT), play an integral part of childhood, a unique medium to facilitate the development of language expression, communication skills, emotional, social, decision making, and cognitive development in children.

For this reason, the most appropriate method of stimulating the children is to play. Landreth is like, a psychologist from the Institute of Applied Psychology, University of Indonesia Mohammad Rizal,Psi also said that the play makes children aged 3-5 years in the more intelligent.

It’s just that, according to Rizal, it’s worth playing through the stimulation was given following the 7 domains of intelligence of the child, as he had been presented by Dr. Howard Gardner, a psychologist from Harvard University, namely:

Spatial Intelligence / Kinetics

-Helping homework or other activities such as sweeping or washing motor

-Playing the bike, hide and seek, or up and down the stairs

Interpersonal Intelligence

Involve other children / neighbors the same age to play with your child. This is to teach children to learn to share and respect others

Interpersonal intelligence

-Drawing, to see the expectations or the surge of emotion when it was dominant in her

-Playing the role, such as playing the mother or father-figures of heroic

Logical Mathematical Intelligence

-Encourage children to play puzzle with more pieces

-Playing stacking blocks that have numbers or letters

Musical Intelligence

-Listening for children songs, taught to memorize a song, and sing along with them.

-Playing a musical instrument like guitar or piano miniature, to wreak musical intelligence

Naturalist intelligence

-Planting a tree together, watering and provide fertilizer together

-Feeding the pets like fish feeding while you talk about the things about the fish

Linguistic intelligence

-Give the book already has a text (if it is able to read)

-If you can not read, read stories and get your child to tell their experience about what

-Encourage the child to find the symbols along the way when with you

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