Here are some simple techniques that help you to train your children for better memory power.
Using acronyms for better memory power
Using acronyms could help your children
remember information in an easy manner. There are several types of acronym
games in the world. Acronyms might lead to the formation of words and
syllables. When your children create a word by using a game board, he or she
will be able remember them for immediate retrieval.
Using rhymes and songs
Rhymes, songs, melodies and rhythms are the
best sources of verbal exercises. Your children could use thoughtful toys and
playthings to learn or they can use their voice to train their brains to
remember information. Rhymes and songs should go along with related and
accompanying visuals because they impart moving or stationary images to
consolidate the memory retention process.
Playing games to retain memory
Games are the best tools to enhance memory
power in children. Story telling could be used as a form of game to induce
better memory retention. Children will be able to remember important points of
the story in memory and later recall it very quickly. Young children in their
early classroom should be asked to recite a story everyday to help them develop
memory power. Stories are very good tools because children create images of
events and personalities in their brain. It is very easy for them to recall
such images later when needed by them.
De-stressing the brain
Stress and pressure could impede flow of
information to the sensitive areas of the brain. In fact, several brain intake
systems work in combination to carry information into the reactive zone of the
brain. When there is a pressure on the brain, the resulting action of the brain
will be flight or freezing of information flow to the thinking or conscious
parts of the brain where long-term memory is created.
Attention grabbing events
Children like something that grabs their
attention. Memorable events could help children develop long-term memories. Ask
your children to visualize how their next session of class will be. Hang
posters that advertise the next lesson. This will heighten the level of
curiosity in your children. Curious minds will open their sensory uptake
filters to absorb more bits of information.
Playing with colors
The sensory filter of brain allows a very
tiny part of the information that is made available by the nature. These
filters will control the type of data that goes inside. However, any information
or data on color and its shade gets access into the brain very easily.
Introducing colors and shades in children's early age will help them develop
better memory power.
Memory that relate to relations and similarities
The brain is an efficient organ. It retains
details and information in its short-term memory area for less than 30 seconds
unless it relates them with an already stored knowledge pool. To develop
memory, you should help your children to activate prior knowledge and details
by reminding their previous learning or experiences.
Creating patterns
The brain is a puzzle and pattern-seeking
organ that creates a storehouse of information based on the information
available. When your children create connecting patterns between new and old
knowledge stored within the memory sectors of the brain, then its power to
retain and enhance memory power becomes two or threefold. Making charts and
comparing them, mnemonics and playing with games that works on analogies will
help create patterns among old and new information stored within the cerebral
cortex of the brain.
Better memory means better classroom
performances. Children who are adept in the art of memory development and
retention could easily outclass their peers in scholastic and academic domains.
