Your Child Is Talented

By: Tyler Benson

It is a well known fact that the number of brain cortex cells is not increased in comparison with the inborn amount in the course of personal intellectual development. With such a conclusion it becomes evident that genius and talent do not depend on innate qualities. Personal endowments are formed by surroundings. Recently the scientists came to the conclusion that the harmful influence of heredity has been considerably exaggerated: its effect on mental abilities is much less than that of the educating environment. In other words, with a correct approach you can make a genius of any child. Though there are some restrictions, of course. The basis of the future talent should be formed before the child is three. At this age the brain cells are most capable of developing new connections (by 3 years old 90 % of the brain structure has been already formed). Start stimulating this process from antenatal period.

The parents are going crazy, ascribing to their baby various remarkable abilities. However pragmatic scientists have proved that only 20 % newborn's brain cells are functioning, so his talent is as helpless as he is himself. But in no case hopeless: with learning every new action new brain cells are involved and talent takes definite shape. The main task of early education is to develop fundamental psychological functions- memory, attention, imagination, logical thinking. The period when the child is under three is very important: alongside the intellectual skills, most of the personal traits (such as self - discipline, sincerity, diligence, etc) are developed at that time. Many modern psychological tests for one-year-old include social aspects. Besides the well known IQ they reflect the child's emotional quotient - EQ. Without it even the high IQ is not a guarantee of future success. The only chance to improve EQ - teach the child to communicate with other people. An unbound talent is getting brighter and brighter from year to year, an individual is learning, imitating, adopting to society rules, looking for understanding and finally finds himself in his sphere. After that he starts developing independently. Psychologists claim that talent formation stops at 13 years old. By that time parents and teachers should do a titanic work. Without pushing and imposing their own opinions on to the children they should motivate their constant and free development. Quite apart in this process stand wunderkinds. Their talent is like a comet: flashes and fades away in no time. The world is applauding the geniuses entering the universities at 6, composing beautiful music, calculating fabulous figures, writing an incredible art essay in ten minutes. Such work hardly looks like a piece of art essay writing of a six-year-old child. Even world recognized geniuses with a respectable art essay history can not but admit exceptional abilities of a young individual. Some of the samples demonstrate combination of art essay pop culture and art essay Greek motives. Their unique abilities account for hypertrophied development of the specific memory. Such overcharge inhibits the development of the feelings and their emotional state doesn't correspond to the standards even at the early stage. Alas, wunderkind's talent is something ephemeral. In two or three years the coevals will catch up with him and then outstrip his achievements.

Talent is a delicate matter, besides experience, skills and knowledge, it includes desire to change the world and contribute to its development. Such desire does not appear instantly, but is growing gradually awaiting its time. Sometimes such time will never come. Everyday problems, bustle and crazy life rhythm take too much energy. Talent won't turn on if the person is exhausted. When you have to write a reflective essay after a busy and tense day, you writing talent won't show up. Should it be a reflective essay in English or a self reflective essay, your mind is blank and there is nothing you can do about it. Though reflective essay writing is not at all a hard task it may seem like you'd better redo your house than write something like this. Being a high school student it seemed to be easier to write, but now when it comes to reflective teacher essay the task seems impossible. Such state may last for years. That is why most of us are perplexed and have nothing to do but to state that the talent has been lost. But it does not mean that there is no possibility of returning it. A group of scientists presented a sensational conception: a strong will can awaken the fading talent. Will compensates for energetic deficiency. Sceptics will be hesitating "will and talent are incompatible. When there is a forced effort there is no place for harmony and talent is meant to exist in harmony". They are right. The relations of will and talent are determined by the situation preceding the action. If the task coincides with the personal abilities, there is no need to apply will. So, if the person is independent, self - sufficient and ready to search for a new solution - he is already talented.

Parenting
 • 
 • 
 • 
 • 
 • 
 • 
 • 
 • 
 • 
 • 
 • 
 • 
 • 
 • 
 • 
 • 
 • 
 • 
 • 
 • 

» More on Parenting