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Raising smart homeschool children

Wish to prepare your homeschoolers for life and optimize their intellectual development? Here is how you can raise smart children: Teaching through everyday experiences. Make sure you include teaching through everyday experiences as part of learning. Encourage their love of learning and curiosity. Include every form of learning. It is believed that success in school comes from parents who value every form of learning –scientific and artistic. Teach independence. When children dress themselves and choose their own clothes, they learn independence.   Offering your child the chance to make their own choices increases their decision-making skills and self-confidence that plays a crucial role in their development. Spend quality time with the child to make them secure. Be a motivator. It is important to motivate the child, but do not force them.   By giving them the choice to choose what they want to play with gives them the feeling of having more control over their life and g

Benefits of adding exercise to your homeschooling curriculum

It is a known fact that physical activity does not just keep the body fit but also helps in getting healthier brains. There are thousands of good effects of exercise on the brain, not just for adults, but also for children.     Below is how making exercise a daily part of your homeschooling Canada routine can help your children become smart: The flow of blood. Exercise tends to increase blood flow into the brain.   Blood helps in delivering glucose and oxygen that the brain requires for sharp mental focus and alertness.   Due to this, exercise makes learning easier for children. Development of brain cells. Exercise helps in building new brain cells in a brain region known as dentate gyrus, which is connected to memory.   Exercise also helps in stimulating nerve growth. Those who exercise on a regular basis have enhanced short-term memory, show quicker reaction time, and have higher creativity level. Openness to learning. Exercise also helps in building up the level o