{"id":6165,"date":"2013-07-08T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wholehealthchicago.com\/?p=5508"},"modified":"2021-08-30T22:18:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T03:18:06","slug":"how-to-make-your-child-smarter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wholehealthchicago.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/08\/how-to-make-your-child-smarter-2","title":{"rendered":"How To Make Your Child Smarter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was at the magazine rack at my local health club, about to grab something from among the tattered copies of Self, Men\u2019s Health, Bazaar, and Modern Bride, when I discovered, peeping from behind its fellows, a pristine and virtually unread copy of Perspectives on Psychological Science<\/i>, subtitled \u201cA Journal of the Association for Psychological Science.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since I\u2019m always reading while pedaling the elliptical, the article \u201cHow to Make A Young Child Smarter\u201d looked intriguing. Although I personally have neither the energy nor the finances for more offspring, intelligent or otherwise, I suspect some of you are eventually planning families or, if not, consider yourselves concerned aunts and uncles. Therefore, you might find this information useful and, with luck, not a cause for regret (\u201cAh, if I\u2019d only fed Billy more fish\u2026\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I want to remind you that the admonition to be careful what you wish for has endured through the ages. The Unabomber Ted Kaczynski was undoubtedly a brilliant child, as was Enron\u2019s Jeff Skilling, now a full time license plate maker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The article gets right to the point. \u201cA good deal of research confirms what most people consider self-evident: Intelligence matters for academic and life success.\u201d Whether or not you believe this (personally, I\u2019m skeptical), over the years academic psychologists have undertaken virtually hundreds of research studies to determine if there are any steps parents can take to increase their child\u2019s intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Virtually every one of these studies has been recorded in a massive \u201cDatabase of Raising Intelligence,\u201d and the stalwart authors of this particular article examined them all. There are definite criteria a study must meet in order to enter this hallowed database:<\/p>\n\n\n\n