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Infant's Intelligence
Quotient (IQ)

Can Parenting Techniques Lead to Higher IQs in Babies?

By Kelly Burgess

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Expanding Intelligence
Dr. Eliot, author of What's Going on in There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life (Bantam, 2000), says infancy is when parents have the most control over the environment and, thus, the best chance to enrich their child intellectually. The research she has done, and that she describes in her book, makes it clear that interacting with an infant verbally is the best way to provide this enrichment.

"The single most effective, and the only proven, enrichment activity is just language," Dr. Eliot says. "Verbal stimulation such as reading, talking and singing to Baby has shown to correlate with verbal IQ as well as later measures of language arts ability."

There are other factors that haven't necessarily been proven, but which Dr. Eliot says logically are thought to have an impact on intellectual development. These include encouraging independence, giving a child emotional security and, basically, doing those things that are widely perceived to be good parenting practices.

"Fostering these positive attributes will give a child self confidence, and if your child is self-confident they're in a more comfortale spot for learning," Dr. Eliot says.


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