How to Make Your Child a Genius (Part 2)

Mark Wealth

Previously, we shared 5 tips on making your child a genius. If you missed it, read here.

Find more helpful tips to steer you in the right direction.

*Encourage Curiosity as this is a major character of known geniuses. They don’t accept the status quo and want to go deeper, wider or higher. So, when your kids start asking those never ending “why” and “what if” questions, don’t shut them up.

If you don’t know the answer, try and lovingly find it with them despite your busy schedule.

*Mistakes Are Okay as long as they don’t get frustrated and give up. Don’t scold, yell or call them names when they make mistakes. Instead, encourage them with motivating affirmations.

Remind them of those times when they or someone they know tried and failed and kept on till they succeeded. Tell them they can do it. We all know how Thomas Edison tried and failed a thousand times before he succeeded in discovering  and using electricity.

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*Food & Exercise are also important factors on developing your child’s capacity to gain and apply intelligence (by foods, we mean natural nutritious foods, not processed junk food). Foods supply nutrients to build and repair body parts while exercises strengthen body parts, promotes the release of mind stimulating hormones and supplies the brain with oxygen.

From these tips, making your child a genius can be divided into two parts. One has to do with their environment which includes you, the parent; siblings; neighbours and teachers while the other has to do with the child’s mental and physical states.

Although some argue that geniuses are born not made, there are individuals whose parents made conscious efforts to make their kids geniuses and succeeded. You too can.

In fact, let me conclude with a few popular examples that show parents have a large role to play in bringing the best out of their kids.

*Oprah Winfrey, Media magnate; philanthropist. Her grandma taught her to read at age 3. This established her famous love of books.

*Mark Zuckerberg, Internet entrepreneur; Facebook founder. His dad taught him Atari BASIC programming in junior high.

*Sean “Jay-Z” Carter, Rap mogul; Marketer. Unable to keep him from banging on the kitchen table, his mum got him a boom box.