The Science Behind Making Your Child Smarter
We all have our assumptions about what works—here’s what the data really tells us about ways we can improve intelligence
By Sue Shellenbarger
Wall Street Journal
December 24, 2018

What parents wouldn’t want to give their children the ability to get good grades and excel at work?

Those benefits are linked in research to a high IQ. Dozens of recent studies shed new light on the extent to which parents can—and cannot—help their children score higher on that popular and widely used measure of intelligence.

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WAYS YOU CAN RAISE SMARTER CHILDREN
Engage them early in lively conversation.
Play ​card, board or videogames that ​build​ working memory.
Stress the intrinsic rewards of learning rather than grades.
Frame a bad grade as a reason to work harder.
Enroll them in schools where intelligence is seen as fluid rather than fixed.
Teach them that their ability is under their control.

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