How to raise a smart kid

There are many ways to raise your kids to be smarter than their peers. Here are the 10 tips to make kids smart.

1. Allow them to make decisions: With kids, frame things in a way that always give them a choice E.g. ‘Do you want to wear a red shirt or a blue shirt?” It makes them feel like they are in control. Either way, they know it’s a time to put on a shirt.
   
2. Read to them early an often: Regularly reading to them will make them smart and get familiarize with many key words and sentences. They can become smarter than their peers in classroom or even in any social gathering.
   
3. Enroll them in music lessons/ sport lessons/ swimming classes: This will not only help develop their intellectual abilities but help build their mental abilities. Once they keep practicing in their various lessons, they will develop technique and styles on how to handle life situations.
   
4. Make time for unstructured play: Create time to have fun and play games with your kids. Games are like puzzle and this will also help them develop techniques to solve life situations. This will help to exercise their brains.
   
5. Let them make mistakes: Adults make mistakes an learn from it. So, allow your kids to make mistakes too and learn from them. It will make your kids super smart. Mistakes makes us grow and become smarter.
6. Give them chores: Giving them chores makes them more responsible and allows them to adopt to any environment they find themselves. In Africa, a girl child is usually given more chores than the males. If the male child grows up, he begins to feel that house chores are not meant for him. If we give both gender equal chores, they grow up to be more responsible and see reasons why they need to help one another in a larger society.
   
7. Eat dinner together: Eating dinner together brings a sense of love, togetherness and unity in the family. The kid grows up and become unified in any environment they find themselves. Eating together means family even though they are not directly your family members.
8. Establish a good bedtime routine: Have a good bedtime make them more responsible and active. They get use to having a planned life ahead. It also helps to relax their nerves and makes them have adequate rest time ahead of the next day.
   
9. Get them moving: This is all about encouraging your kids to keep pushing to achieve their goals. Even when they are weak, keep encouraging and pushing them to soar higher by supporting and assisting them.
   
10. Go exploring: Expose them to the world. Create out time to travel and go for vacations. It will get them more exposed. The more they travel, the more they learn the world.
    These are some major tips on how to raise smart kids.

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