Training mothers to
train kids
Staff Reporter
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Aspire Learning's `My smart baby' programme focuses
on using the right brain
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The programme is based on research modules around the
world
Cards with pictures, words and dots representing numbers
are shown to child in a systematic fashion
CHENNAI: There probably is more to bringing up babies
than changing diapers. Academicians at Aspire Learning have designed a programme
titled `My smart baby' for mothers of children that are 3 to 48-months old.
The programme, which trains mothers to gradually introduce
various concepts to infants and babies a few years old, claims to develop faculties
of the child's right brain.
"We have designed cards with pictures, words and dots
representing numbers. When these are shown to the child in a systematic fashion,
it is possible that the child comfortably finishes a Harry Potter novel in about
five hours when he is just five-years-old," says N. Madhumati of Aspire Learning.
The programme, though based on research modules around
the world, has been `customised' to the Indian context.
Registers
information
"The child registers information shown in the cards as
images. It does not analyse or interpret. But since development of the right brain
occurs right from the foetus stage till when the child is about five-years-old,
enabling the child to use his or her right brain from then will reap great benefits
later," says K. Swaminathan of Aspire.
Education
system
Our education system focuses on development of the left
brain, which could in course of time, render the right brain inefficient, he adds.
A training programme for mothers will be held on Saturday.
For further details those desirous can contact phone number
93805 20020.