Wednesday, 1 December 2010

Stimulating the Right Brain and Left Brain

Creativity and imagination are very important in one's life. If early on creativity of children is developed, it will be formed later in her personal attitude and creative and does not depend on the environment.

He'll be better prepared and able to adapt to the changes and demands that occur in its environment.

The human brain consists of left and right hemispheres. The left brain is associated with academic function that consists of speaking abilities, the ability to process grammar, reading and writing, memory (name, time and events), logic, numbers, analysis, and others. While the right brain space for the development of things that are artistic, creativity, feelings, emotions, style, rhythm music, imagination, fantasy, color, introducing themselves and others, socialization, personality development. Experts say many of the left brain as the controlling IQ (Intelligence Quotient), while the right brain plays an important role for the development of EQ (Emotional Ouotient) a person.

Unfortunately, the learning system in our country still refer to simply right-brain development. Whereas in Europe and America for example, education is applied in the form of dancing, singing, painting and so forth at the beginning of education. They are sure to stimulate the arts, creativity and imagination first, when learning mathematics and the analogical later could be better. This condition is reversed in Indonesia, which appears from its national curriculum looks likely to neglect the development of creativity and imagination of children.

Yet creativity and imagination is very important in one's life. If early on creativity of children is developed, it will be formed later in her personal attitude and creative and does not depend on the environment. Thus, he will be better prepared and able to adapt to the changes and demands that occur in its environment.

However, it does not mean right hemisphere is more important than the left hemisphere, or vice versa. Both are very important, therefore both must be developed in a balanced way for the function of each hemisphere to walk a balanced and mutually reinforcing. If only focused on one hemisphere, the hemisphere that are less developed will be hampered in carrying out its functions. Children to be poor when he has more creativity is stimulated to use his left brain hemisphere. Conversely, if the right brain hemisphere functions are more often used, the child will actually slow in thinking logical, linear and regularly which is also used in everyday life. Some of the exercises and this habit should be done every day.

Improve Memory and Logic Thinking

Many parents who believe that by once reading a smart kid will be able to remember well. So when a child and then forgot what he had read and considered memory is low. Indeed there is 1% of children who like it, but most children take at least 3 times to repeat and remember it back in for strong embedded in his mind. So do not get bored repeating the reading lessons are things that must be conditioned on the child. Since not understand it then we as parents have to motivate them. By playing guessing game for example then the child will be encouraged to recall what he has just read. Or sometimes parents and children to hear it read, then asked the boy back a few things to remember. Even playing this guessing game can be done each time, over dinner, while watching TV, in the course of her school for example.

Viewer tool and Optimize five senses

Props are a great tool to create memories of a child is getting stronger and easier to digest, so the analogy-logic operations. For example describes the distribution, use pebbles or seeds so that children easily understand that the 20 seeds if equally divided by 2 then each part will amount to ten. With the many tools that can be touched, seen, smelled and heard it will be even stronger memory of children. So optimizing the five senses to form a strong impression on his memory.

Familiarize Neat and Discipline

As for helping the child does not forget things and not careless, then the child usually acts neat and discipline to put the goods in accordance with the place. For example, differentiate on where to put his school equipment, textbooks, tools to play, equipment skills, school books or comic books. This little habit that will shape the attitudes underestimated careless and forgetful to adulthood.

Music, Art and Sports

In the morning, turn on the dynamic music, daytime music more soothing for the child to rest. Any music is a powerful stimulant to calm us or give encouragement. Encourage children to develop artistic talent or sports that look like '. Play that requires a lot of physical movement is also one form of mild exercise are good for stimulating the right brain, such as cycling or the chase. Even better if more routine and controlled such as swimming, jogging one morning each week, karate, etc..

Reading and Speaking of Good and True

Reading is the world's media to open the window. Habit of reading good books that have vocabulary and good dialogue is an example that is often the subject of child imitation of everyday language. So give reading books of quality. Similarly, the way we speak will often hear a sample of children and also how to communicate with others, so use way of speaking well and correctly. Reading stories before bed, in addition will increase the child's vocabulary will also practice speaking in accordance with the dialogue he was hearing.

Train Disappointed Endurance of Pain

Many parents who feel guilty because of his childhood of deprivation or feel less time for children, and then replace it by meeting the demand for children. In the end the child did not even feel how it feels to be rejected her desire, how to resist the urge, or feeling disappointed when it failed to achieve a thing. Yet these things are very useful to stimulate the ability of self control and emotional stability training, the ability of right brain associated with emotional intelligence in the future. So we may occasionally do so, but of course do not let kids prolonged frustration, communication and give the sense that the child can learn to tolerate and adapt to a sense of disappointment. Good practice and condition her into a routine and good habits.

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