10 ways to help your child grow their best brain

1. Help your child learn to sing or play music or learn a second language.
2. Make sure he or she has plenty of physical activity; whenever possible, outdoors is best.
3. Cut down on sugar, especially soda and diet soda.
4. Make sure they get plenty of protein.
5. Be consistent about hours for eating, sleeping and waking.
6. Help your child set goals and respect limits.
7. Feed various ways of learning. Take them to a science fair one weekend and an art fair the next. Take them to a sports competition another week and a play the next.
8. Provide opportunities for social interaction with people of all ages.
9. Remember that one-third of the brain is set up to execute and two-thirds, to receive information. Make room for quiet time.
10. If your child studies or reads all the time, plays computer games all the time, or plays sports all the time, know that too much of anything is too much. The brain needs balance and harmony.


Lee Gerdes
Author of Limitless You:
The Infinite Possibilities of a Balanced Brain