Information about developing your children

Children are all off back to school and there are a few people breathing a sign of relief at getting some peace and quiet. But along with getting their new clothes, pens and pencils and books, we also like to think of how we can help our children do better. The thing about school is the older they get the more important it becomes for them to learn and learn quickly.

We come in all sizes and levels of intelligence, but the one thing children all have in common is your brain works in the same way. Unfortunately traditional and even more so the new trendy methods of teaching take no account of this. My friend’s son was taught the exact same linear way to take notes and when he came to revising it was just reams of information that is hard to remember.

Actually he took to it very easily as the method of connections is the same as the way the brain stores information. The brain connects facts to other facts; these connections are different for everyone, because we are all unique. By using mind mapping we can connect facts as they make sense to us, we then use it say to revise, the information makes sense, because the facts are connected right for us.

We start in the centre of the page with the central core of the information we are note taking about, from this we extrapolate the facts, making connections. At a glance it makes far more sense when we read it back, helping us to retain the information better for exams later.

Once we got him software he was cutting his revising down dramatically and get better exam results, it worked and as you know most children do not work well doing lots of revision. By using a method that in effect connects facts and information for your child in the way they already associate them, makes it very easy to understand why it works so quickly and effectively.