True or False: Children with Fast Development Are Clever While the Slow Ones are Stupid?

Does it true? It’s said for a long time that children who can walk before talk would be smart while children with slow development are stupid. Every parent’s desire is for their children to be a good child and intelligent. Having good IQ and EQ depends on many factors: genetic from parents, parenting, and environment. A child’s brain starts to develop since he/she is still mom’s belly. It’s recommended that every pregnant woman should go to check their pregnancy regularly, eat healthy foods, and have enough rest.

From newborn to five years old, the children’s brain will grow faster comparing to children in other ages. So, childhood is a critical time to build a good foundation. The brain part of learning will forever develop. Give your children proper parenting in each age starting from the infants, encourage the development of sensory in hearing and seeing, embrace them, use toys to enhance perception in sound and colors, and give them the learning experience suitable for their age. In older children who start to explore things around them, toys should be changes in accordance with their age as well so that they can support development via playing.

In children under the age of six, the development will be assessed by age such as lifting their head, sitting, standing, walking, speaking the first words, and grasping objects. The development should go by age accordingly. For IQ assessment, the doctors will do the test when there are indications such as problems in learning, inability to understand, and slow learning. This is a way to test how the baby brain's learning. If your child has a high IQ, good genes from parents, or has fast development during childhood, but, later, he/she doesn’t have enough encouragement or addict to games, if the issues haven’t solved, he/she might grow up into a child with complicated problems. If you’re suspected that your child is having a slow development, not proper by the age, please consult with the doctor.