(A Guide for Parents)

Awakening of Intelligence in Young Children.

Parents can play a key role in the intellectual development of their children.

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The determining period is from 0 to 7 years of age.

This book is meant for parents and explains quite simply how to easily and efficiently help along the awakening of intelligence in their children.

Why write a book about intelligence meant for parents? Simply because parents, often without being aware of it, play a principal role in the development of the intellectual abilities of their children.

Are they solely responsible for this development? Of course not.

How many parents have felt helpless when confronted with a persistent, less than satisfactory school performance of their children?

How many have questioned the fact that their child, so talkative before reaching school age, has progressively grown rather silent and thoughtful, sometimes to the point of experiencing difficulty in expressing himself clearly, and whose general behavior they find more and more disconcerting?

Are we dealing here with what is generally referred to as 'the teenage crisis'? Or is something else the matter?

From school age on, the educational system takes almost complete control of the educational aspects of our children's rearing and thus takes on a very heavy responsibility.

To what degree is the system assuming full responsibility?