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Parents, discover the advantages of MAKING KIDS SMARTER (MKS) and apply this powerful new theory of child development to the child in your life. MKS shows how you can help your child develop concepts, rules, problem solving, and mental strategies, paving the way for their innate talents. Learn how to foster a child's creativity and self-esteem-the two legs upon which exceptional intelligence stands. Discover how to identify various stages of development in your child and how to enhance each one. This book explains why firstborns and singletons tend to be more advanced and how to apply this understanding to the development of all children. It also shows how the home environment of advanced, emotionally healthy children differs from those of others. Once you understand this process, you have a straight shot at parenting intelligently...FOR A LIFETIME. All parents wish to give their child an advantage and help them develop to their full potential. If you want to learn how to give YOUR child an edge, the first step is to give yourself an edge right now, with Making Kids Smarter.
About the author
Pedro R. Portes, PhD is an educational psychologist and certified counselor, past editor of The Journal of the Society for Accelerated Learning and Teaching, Distinguished Professor and Executive Director - CLASE at the University of Georgia. He has published numerous articles focusing on intellectual growth. Dr. Portes continues to present research at major national and international conferences. In this reader friendly bilingual book, he shows the ways language, emotion and motivation can be maximized for children's healthy and superior mental development. The key concerns parenting know-how, interaction patterns around "vivencias" or lived experiences and modeling.
