A basic guide on how to raise smart children. Do you feel your children have the potential for great things? Would you like your kids to grow up to be highly successful adults but are not sure where to begin?

Almost 400,000 children are born around the world every day. This high number shows that many people are experiencing the joy of becoming parents. However, parenthood also involves being responsible for your child’s upbringing, development, and how they see the world.

If you want tips on becoming a better parent, look no further! Our guide will provide you with the right tools you need to raise smart children. So read below if you are ready to see your kid become the next Einstein!

Take Time to Listen

One way you can raise smart children is if you take the time to listen when they talk. This might be difficult to do, especially when you live a busy life and try to multitask to get everything done. However, when a child feels heard, it allows them to reveal what is on their mind and feel comfortable expressing themselves.

Here are a few ways you can let your kids know you are listening:

• Put down your phone
• Pay attention while they talk
• Acknowledge what they say
• Answer their questions

When you can practice these top listening techniques, it will show your kids that what they are saying is important. And when you are fully engaged in the conversation with your child, it validates them, which can directly impact how smart they become.

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Foster Their Critical Thinking Skills

Another way you can help your kids is by fostering their critical thinking skills. For example, when your child has a problem, you might feel like you should step in and try to solve it for them.

However, when you teach, guide, and encourage your children to come up with their own solution to an issue or obstacle, it will stimulate their brain and help them see that they are smart enough to work through things on their own.

Make Learning Fun

An additional way you can raise smart kids is to make learning fun. Having your kids hit the books after a long day at school can cause them to burn out and dread learning. Therefore, this is your opportunity to nurture your kid’s creativity.

For example, there are many brain games for children that combine learning with fun activities. And if you are looking for fun things to do with your kids, you can go online to read more about Montessori recommended projects that are geared towards helping your child improve their IQ in no time!

You Have the Tools to Raise Smart Children!

Unlocking your child’s true potential has never been easier! Our guide has shown you several ways to raise smart children so they can have a great head start in life. If you follow our recommendations, you will have kids that will go out there and change the world!

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Hi friends, hope you are having a good day! Today, I am going to talk about a very important topic from a child’s mental health perspective, the emotional needs of a toddler.

I have been trying to write this post since July when I first started observing the behavioral changes in Nemit. But due to time constraint & other prior commitments, I couldn’t find time to finish this post. Thanks to Blogchatter’s #MyFriendAlexa campaign that I am finally able to complete all my pending posts including this one.

I will be sharing this post in a 3-part series and this is the first post of the series. 

Screenshot of school’s CCTV footage

If you guys have been following my Instagram (growing_with_nemit) stories, you must be aware of the school tales that I share every once in a while. If you are not following me, you can still check the story highlights ‘School‘ on my Insta profile.

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Nemit is 2 years and 8 months old presently (September 2018) and goes to a play school. I am sharing incidents from July 2018.

He had not been feeling very happy about going to school around that time. Many of my friends told me that it could be a phase which every toddler goes through so I should not bother much about it. But this phase left me really worried.

Hence writing this post to share my experience and learnings from that phase on understanding the emotional needs of a toddler and how parents can deal with such situations.

Happy days at school

But first, let me share a little background here. Nemit started his playschool 6 months ago (in March 2018) and it took him around 3 weeks initially to settle down in his class and get comfortable with his teacher. Once he got settled, every morning he would get so excited to go to school.

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It was July when his behavior suddenly changed towards the school. He used to start crying as soon as we would ask him to get ready for school. And would keep on crying in the class as well. He simply refused to talk about anything related to school.

Before moving further, I want to request all the parents out there to never ignore the cries of your children.

Nemit is a happy kid usually calm and understanding, it is very rare of him to show any temper tantrums at home or even outside. Even if he experiences an emotional outburst, it doesn’t last for long. We have been following the positive parenting approach with the major focus on a healthy parent-child relationship. And I give much credit to this approach in helping us understand & focus on Nemit’s emotional needs.

Positive or gentle parenting as the name suggests involves a parenting approach which focuses on disciplining children with love, empathy and kindness rather than enforcing harsh rules.

We strongly believe if the child is happy and his emotional needs are also fulfilled, it helps in developing a strong relationship with parents on the basis of trust, love, and care.

Why understand the emotional needs of a toddler?

Positive Parenting helps in developing a strong, deeply committed relationship between parent and child. And this relationship is based on communication and mutual respect. And that’s exactly we have been following with Nemit.

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We talk a lot with him to help develop his communication skills. Every evening we talk about what he’s going to do at school the next day. Usually, he’s happy to talk about his school and the activities which he does in the class.

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But, one day (in July), when I shifted the topic of our conversation to school, he started getting uncomfortable. I could notice the change in his facial expressions which were changing from excitement to confusion and later to sadness.

This was an alarming sign for us!

The change in a child’s emotions & behavior can give you an insight into what’s going on inside a child’s mind. Sometimes, an early intervention can save kids as well as their parents from getting too deep into an emotional stress.

This post was just an overview and to give you a little background. My aim was to tell you how you can observe the emotional changes in your child. There is no one who knows a child better than his own parents. When you notice a change in their behavior, it’s your responsibility to find out the reason behind it. It’always better to intervene and understand the reason to avoid getting the situation out of control at a later stage.

Children cry and have tantrums to show that they are upset or frustrated with a certain situation. Parents can easily identify between usual tantrums and the serious ones. Still, there are chances that we may miss or ignore the behavior which may need immediate attention. Hence, it becomes even more important to understand the emotional needs of a child.

Why emotions matter? A child’s response to various feelings they experience every day have a major impact on their choices, their behavior, and on how well they cope and enjoy life.

I will be continuing further in my next post, Part-2 of the series and will share more on ‘what are the emotional needs of a toddler?’ Keep watching this space!

Whenever your child cries or throws a tantrum, how often do you try to find out the reason behind that behavior? Let’s talk about child emotions and their emotional development!

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