• Eating
• Washing hands
• Putting on their clothes
• Taking off their shoes
• Picking up the toys
• Brush their teeth
• Wipe after they have spilled

 

 

Brain development early childhood consists of 26 easy and enjoyable targeted brain gym exercises that bring about rapid and often dramatic improvements in concentration, long term memory, short term memory, reading, writing, organizing, listening, physical coordination, and more.

During my brain gym research I came across a few brain gym exercises (or brain gym excercises as some people prefer), some of which might be too complicated for baby brain development.

Look in any brain gym book and you will find traces of the points mentioned below.

I’m briefly going to discuss it any case for you, to be aware that they exist.

 

Brain Development Early Childhood

 

Drink Water

Water comprises more of the brain than of any other organ of the body. Water is the substance that can help “grease the wheel”.

It is important that your child drinks lots of water. Promote water consumption from an early age.

Children perspire a lot during the day because of all the early childhood activities they undertake. They are very energetic and dehydration can negatively affect their concentration.

 

Brain Buttons

This is one of the brain gym exercises I feel might be too complicated for our little ones.

In a nutshell, this exercise helps improve blood flow to the brain to "switch on" the entire brain specifically when needed.

The increased blood flow helps improve concentration skills required for reading, writing, etc.

 

Cross Crawl

Brain gym movements such as cross crawling is a very simple yet effective one.

It helps coordinate the right and left brain by exercising the information flow between the two hemispheres.

Brain gym exercises useful for spelling, writing, listening, reading and comprehension includes:

• Stand or sit. Put the right hand across the body to the left knee as you raise it, and then do the same thing for the left hand on the right knee just as if you were marching.
• Just do this either sitting or standing for about 2 minutes.

 

Hook Ups

This is one of plenty other brain gym exercises I feel might be too complicated for our kids.

This works well for nerves before a special event such as making a speech or singing in front of people.

Any situation which will cause nervousness calls for a few "hook ups" to calm the mind ands improve concentration.

 

Mind Maps

Mind maps (or similar concepts) have been used for centuries, for learning, brainstorming, memory, visual thinking, and problem solving by people in general.

Mind Maps

The mind map utilizes the full range of the left and right human cortical skills and balances the brain.

Exercise this with your child to let them get used to using mind maps.

An example of this might be to take something simple such as making a cup of coffee. Break it down into the logical steps. What ingredients do you need to make coffee? What utensils are best suited? Draw a picture to present these ideas around a central keyword “making coffee”.

Your toddler will enjoy these brain gyms while you stimulate his/her brain.

 

Problem Solving Skills

All these brain gym movements and brain gym activities will help your child become positive, active, clear and energetic for learning and it will assist you how to raise a smarter child.

• Provide games and toys which involve problem solving skills, such as puzzles, shape buckets, blocks etc.
• Try not to interrupt when a toddler is busy.
• Show them more than one demonstration on how something works.
• Give them things to figure out how it works.
• If a child struggles, don’t jump in and help him immediately, first see what he does.
• Take an empty toilet roll and a piece of material. Put the material inside the toilet roll and let the toddler pull it out. Later on the toddler can put it in by himself.

There are lots of brain gym software and brain gym cd's available that can be used to do gym brain training.

Brain gym research is still a hot topic for discussion and there exist criticism against the whole brain gyms concept. You have to decide yourself if you would like to have a brainy child (or at least give it a try).

 

More about Brain Development Early Childhood

Obviously brain development early childhood is a huge topic on its own that can not be all presented here.

If you feel you would like to improve your brain or share something with others about brain development in young children or brain gym exercises that you used for your children, please share your brain gym ideas on how to raise smart kids.