Knowledge Tips to Improve Thai Children with 2 Kors and 2 Lors

“Knowledge Tips to Improve Thai Children with 2 Kors and 2 Lors”

1 Kor Kin or Eating Foods for Brain Development

Brain is an automatic organ that works very hard even while sleeping. Thus, brain needs plenty of energy. Glucose and oxygen in blood vessels, accounting for 25% of overall demands of oxygen of the whole body, are the source of energy. In addition, the study on the impacts of malnutrition on children’s brain indicated the effects on thinking and problem-solving process. Consequently, it was summarized that 5 groups of foods extremely benefited and played a key role in growth and brain development.

1. Breast Milk is the best source of nutrients essential for nurturing a baby’s brain from birth to 6 months. Reports identified that a baby with breastfeeding had higher IQ than the one who consumed cow milk. Therefore, a wise child requires breastfeeding which has more nutrients vital for a baby’s brain development.

2. Brown Rice is unpolished rice rich in B complex and chemical synapses in the brain which deems necessary for a baby’s learning. Besides, brown rice is digested slower than a polished one. This causes slow increase of sugar volume in blood and lasts long which is beneficial for cells of the brain. Brain requires sugar from blood to normally function. Thus, if a wise child is needed, brown rice is always served for him.

3. Fresh Vegetables and Fruits are good source of anti-oxidants, minerals and various vitamins which boost the strong immunity of the baby that prevents no illnesses and stresses, poses no harms to health and bears no obstacles for learning. Consequently, the baby can learn and gain new experiences and intelligence. Furthermore, fruits and vegetables, especially, greens, cauliflowers, cantaloupes, contain minerals and vitamins required for building synapses to support the performance of the cells of the brain. Therefore, a variety of fresh seasonal fruits should be ready for servings.

4. Beans, bean curd, soy milk, boiled egg and meat, for example, are a protein cluster of foods necessary for building neurons. The greater numbers of neurons a baby has, the better his learning ability will be. This group of foods is indispensable.

5. Seafood is rich in iodine. Salt, fish sauce and soy sauce containing iodine will aid the function of the brain, nervous system and memory, decrease mental conditions, and prevent less learning which may cause him dull.

Food with Limited Servings are crispy snacks, fried food or junk food like fried potato chips, fried chicken skins. These intakes cause lethargy, doziness, inactivity and dull brain. It was reported that a child who always consumed junk foods had lower educational results than a child who consumed high nutritious ones.

1. Adults act as good examples for children by getting useful foods, not choosy.

2. No supports for junk foods like crispy chips, fatty food, etc.

3. Creating discipline in eating, teaching them to sit on the table. Never feed them while walking.

4. The following are various tips to build a behavior of eating vegetables that should get started from this age range.

5. Some foods are not good for a child since having useless foods or eating little by little will cause a child to have a main course less and less. Foods should be avoided are:

Relation is the development of connections between a child and a specific individual with security and longevity which this tie emerges from both physical and mental responses to the needs with concerns and cares for each other.

A child with proper tie and response from his parents or caregivers will build relation between them which brings about positive feelings to others as well. When growing up, he can create good relationship with new friends and strangers. This will help him stay in the society happily, effectively and successfully as well as be a strong foundation for improving his EQ. A child, who has been ignored and never been hugged, carried, talked with or smiled to him, will have an abnormality called “isolation”. He likes staying alone, rocking himself and ignoring to play or talk with others. A child who received improper responses or lacked of bonds, as a result, will not trust others and will be pessimistic and hard to relate to others.

- Expectations on a child like gender, completeness- not impaired, if a baby born has not met the expectations, parents or caregivers will feel painful which is difficult to build good tie with him. Responses to physical needs such as feeding and carrying when he is crying and changing napkins will bring about mutual relation.

- Contacting, carrying, hugging, frequent feeling or tenderly tapping on his bottom with love and care, for example, will initiate warmth, mental stability and trust of others. This will lead to building strong and positive relationships with others as well.

- A baby with attractive appearances like cute face, plump and chubby-cheeked, will build better tie than a child without these characteristics. This is because a caregiver will likely to carry, embrace and respond to the former one.

- Reactions like staring and smiling will help a caregiver to know his signals and needs even better.

- Emotional background, a child with easy raising and fast growing will make a caregiver happy and joyful and will express love to him accordingly.

1. Understanding of basic emotions and characteristics of a child.

2. Showing explicit love to a child, avoiding comparing with others and accepting his ability.

3. Getting him some practices and courtesies following his age and stimulating all aspects of development.

4. Promoting good health, exercise and doing creative activities.

5. Being patient with his disability in all respects.

6. Preventing him from all possible dangers since a child can walk and climb fluently. He sometimes gets cuts or injuries.

For a new born baby, the start of relation between a baby and his parents is the physical and mental responses with care and tender which parents or caregiver can build it up through the following tips.

Playing means any activities or actions that create amusements for a child regardless of results. It is one way of learning by nature. It plays a very important role to his life because playing is the symbol of transferring experiences. Playing occurs alone without any force. He wants to play at all times and he is happy while playing. Apart from being a nature of a child, playing will lead to learning about environment and nature, observing, and logical thinking. Playing promotes the development of a child to spend his life when he is growing up, to have self-responsibility, self-discipline, self-control and other areas of physical development.

Music plays parts in building nerve nets, stimulates the functions of both hemispheres, perceptions, hearing and motions bringing about learning which is good for IQ and EQ of children since music makes them happy, joyful and pleasant leading to good memory and concentration to better learning. Parents should always arrange musical activities and movements for their off-spring by turning on music, singing songs with motions or knocking along songs and so on.

Art work will balance the use of both hemispheres, calm the emotion down, draw attention as well as enhance other aspects of developments. This is because art will trigger a child’s ability, expressions and imaginations and transform into concrete forms of lines, shapes and colors. Parents should persuade a child to draw a picture and paint it, play with clay and dough to invent mobiles from recycling materials such as bottles, cans, papers and so on.

From Birth to 4 Months- pay attentions to visual attractive objects that have noise and motion. Appropriate toys are like colorful mobiles, jingle toys, cloth balls or squeezing toys.

4- 8 Months- pay attentions to objects with noise, motion, chewable or squeezable toys, mirrors and person’s face. Suitable toys are squeezable toys with noise, winding dolls, rubber rings and mirrors.

8-12 Months- interested in songs, moving objects and close things. Proper toys are songs, winding train toy and dragging toys.

1-3 Years- interested in drawing and writing, walking, listening to tales and pictures. Sample toys are dragging toys, wooden blocks, realistic pictures, tales and replicas of home appliances.

3-5 Years- show interests in jumping, climbing, numbers, alphabets, music, coloring, listening to stories, seeing pictures and playing with friends. Toys suitable for this age are like field playground, wooden blocks, music CD, musical instruments, crayons, replicas, storybooks and pictures.

Understanding that playing is the development of learning and promoting a child’s creativity, parents should usually play with him, let him play freely, make a decision to solve a problem and express feelings by himself. Give him compliments when he can do it, encourage him if he fails. Prepare safe environments and toys, not too expensive, or toys made by parents, for playing. Talking, teasing, story-telling, singing songs and riddles will productively boost his development.

Storybooks are critical for a child’s development similarly to a meal of the day. They are analogically crucial meal for his brain and mind. Reading books for him a little bit each day will absorb into his mind like a bridge of tie leading to adventures, excitements, amusements and imaginations that are strong foundations for life as much as connections between parents and their child.

Books are tools and methods critical for the development of a child since he is, by nature, curious to hear from people around him. We should then read books for him since he is an infant which will make him familiar with them. This will tacitly be the culture of reading habit.

"Books" play a key role to the developmental enhancement in all areas such as.

- Physical- While listening to a book, a child can exercise a long with the stories resulting in healthy parts of the body.

- Emotional and Mental- Reading books for a child will make him feel amused and joyful listening to stories or memorizing poems and freely expressing his needs. He will smile and have a good mood.

- Social- Reading will build tie within a family and people around him.

- Intellectual- Reading will promote his memory of words, sentences and stories from the books so that he can imitate words, understand the meaning of the stories, think and imagine.

- Language- Giving a chance for a child to look at the pictorials and an adult reading the explanations of pictures that may be rhyme words or short sentences for him to be familiar with words and sounds and observe the associations among sounds, meanings and pictures, will help him practice speaking, know vocabularies and language use, notice the details of pictures and find the meanings out of them.

- Carry him on the lap, read with high and low tones, make a little sounds to make a heavy-low cadence while reading. Tell him to view pictures in the book, tease, hug, feel and have him move his body according to the pictures.

- Reading a book for him at least 5-15 minutes daily to create family’s relation and help him to be associated with reading.

- Talk to and question him while reading in order to expand his thoughts, relate his experiences and arouse his language skills and thoughts.

- Find the answer to the questions you asked. Never be quiet or blame him if he is asking since he is curious. Questioning is the extension of thoughts. Any question you do not know, you have to find the answer to show him that it is from reading.

- Story-Telling: If you are inexperienced parents, it is recommended that you read every single letter. Do not afraid that your child will not be fun because if that book is really good, the telling style is the latter. Pointing to the letters that we read together will help him memorize the language well.

- Assign a book corner in the house with enough light, good air ventilation and atmosphere for him to read by himself.

- Schedule time to read together at least for a moment each day. More importantly, action speaks louder than words.

It is necessary to understand a child’s development as to enhance his learning appropriate for his age. From Birth to 3 Months- A book with clear, colorful and big pictures or black and white pictures is suitable for this age. It should be made from thick papers but soft and durable like cloth, plastic or sponge, etc.

4- 6 Months- A book good for this age should have pictures of familiar and close objects with hard and soft colors made of cloth or hard paper.

7- 9 Months- A book appropriate for this age should be thick but concise as a rectangular shape made from thick paper which is good to hold, easy to flip and durable. Pictures should be clear with easy stories around him.

9- 12 Months- A book for this age should be precise made of glossy papers, easy to flip but interesting stories to attract a child’s attention are chosen since a child starts to remember, understand and associate objects with situations. A book should contain pictures of familiar objects of activities he used to do.

1 Year- A book for this age is like a piece of toys. A child sees it as a rectangular object and he can open it to look at several colorful pictures from page after page. He will enjoy discovering things present at his eyes. Flipping to the page that has pictures he knows, he will be more interested, make noise to imitate the sound of things he sees and point to them with joy. Books for this age should be simple, concrete and realistic pictures of daily appliances, fruits, animals, beautiful and impressive belongings.

2 Years- Each child of this age begins to like different things depending on raising environments. He will have excellent auditory sensation and will memorize various sounds or music well. Books suitable for this age are pictorials with daily living pictures, animals, objects, rhythmic language or poems.

3 Years- Astonishingly, a child has fast development of language, creative imaginations and curiosity. He can follow and understand a story well. If he gets good experiences in language and pictures, he will be a good reader in the future. Books for this age should have a good harmony of pictures and story. He will suppose himself as a character in the book and put himself in the story as well while reading. Good illustrations should be able to tell the story. He can understand the whole story, without reading captions, from looking at pictures that should have details enough to communicate.

4 Years- A child will develop language ability very fast. At this age, he will build the foundation of creative imaginations. He will draw a picture along with a story being heard when listening to the tale. A book with pictures will help him fulfill his imaginations as well.

5 Years- A child of this age will love tales and long stories. He will want to listen to tales a lot and have a favorite book to read and listen again and again which will be a good sign of reading habits.

We can choose any place and any time convenient and appropriate for reading books for a child. The place will arouse his interests. Examples of nice places to read are book corner at home, bedroom, public park, backyard, under the tree, book shop, library and classroom, etc.