Keeping Young Minds Sharp

Keeping Young Minds Sharp ~ Stimulate Your Young Child’s Cognitive Development

Parenting our children in this 21^st century is definitely a lot more different compared to the times when we were parented as kids.

Parents’ concern for their children’s cognitive development has increased dramatically over the last 10 years in Singapore as children’s life chances are influenced by their performance in formal schooling. Formal education has taken on more importance than ever. There is now a particular emphasis on fostering children’s intellectual or cognitive development. In addition to attending to their children’s physical and emotional wellness, parents are encouraged to focus on children’s cognitive and intellectual needs.

Hence, childhood has become “scholarized” with children spending more time engaged in intellectual pursuits.  Many affluent parents attempt to “educationalize” the home environment by promoting academic activities and integrating educational aspects into leisure time and routine aspects of daily life, fostering children’s cognitive development at every opportunity. Toymakers, academic experts and other professionals collectively call on parents to deliberately foster their children’s academic skills.

At Guru Kids Pro, we indulged in the experts’ proven research that cognitive development can be sped up; parents are encouraged to cognitively stimulate their children, assisting their progress through each stage. This notion that parents should deliberately foster children’s progress forms the bedrock for current childrearing philosophies. It also forms the foundation for Guru Kids Programs for young children.