Understanding Children Intelligence Early
Is the child who have articulate and numeracy at age 2 years practically intelligent child? what about children who can read fluently at age 4 years? are they intelligent child?
High intelligence is often associated with people who have ability or talent as smart as Albert Einstein. So far there is no expert who can formulate the definition of intelligence properly.
Although there is no right definition of intelligence, according to a psychologist Roslina Verauli, M.Psi, generally intelligence is the capacity of the individual that allows him to learn, reason, solve problems and do other higher cognitive tasks.
What are the high level tasks? “the ability of language, good memory, able to solve the problems, as well as the ability to thinking critically or reasoning ability,” said a psychologist who was familiar called Vera.
Of course, the intelligence of children over the age five years does not same intelligence with they who are under five years old. At the age of the baby, the intelligence is still about development of motor and language skills . While at the age of the children, this ability evolved into rough motor abilities, fine motor, language, to the personal and social skills. When a child shows the ability beyond this age, one can say he has a good learning capacity or he is smart.
Children intelligence can be detected early. even since he was newborn. To measured it, parents need to understand the normal developmental status of the infants and toddlers. For example at the age six months, babies should be able to sit and can hold small objects or eating cake provided.
Or children aged two years should have already started communicating with few words, as well as curiosity. Parents should be sensitive and can detect the extent of child literacy of development. If there delays, immediately aware whether the Child growth are less stimulating or the parent is less stimulate them.
As a guidelines, there are several stages of development which is considered normal in the sense already be mastered by children at certain ages.
- 0-3 months:
Show only the reflex response of the stimulus. Languages merely a cry.
- 4 months:
Began to have some control over his own body and shows the beginning of fine motor skills. Begin to respond socially with smiles and sounds.
- 6 months:
Start learning to sit and crawl. Already have an ability to control the hand movements so it can hold small objects or eating cake provided. Even already have the ability to coordinate eyes and hands to reach for objects.
- 9 months:
Already started to be able use fingers to feed themselves. Started trying to crawl and stand. Trying to use simple words or syllables.
- 12 months (first year):
Visible growth quite rapidly in children, and he began to show the ability to master many things.
- Year 2:
Starting an independent, happy to explore, full of curiosity, try various new capabilities, to communicate with words, trying to understand the causes and effects through motor skills, and mastering the process of learning in the real sense.
- Year 3:
Children have demonstrated mastery of a lot better on a variety of tools for learning, such as language, memory, motor skills, and feelings about herself.
- Year-4th and 5th:
Children’s learning ability is much more developed that allows him to receive a formal learning process.