Intellectual development is an activity to cultivate people's intelligence in order to improve the quality of workers. The basic content is to improve people's observation, memory, imagination and thinking ability. The main way is through education. Intellectual development is inseparable from necessary intellectual investment. [1] Five secrets to improve children's intelligence 1. Give children time to be alone. Don't always shake toys in front of their children. This will not only arouse their interest in learning, but will make them exhausted, and even narrow their observation range, pay attention to the toys in front of them and reduce their intake of other information. There is a view that babies need their parents' care and attention day and night, but they also need some space of their own from time to time, playing with toys or crawling around alone. Secret 2: Support Once the baby confirms that you are trustworthy and can get your love and help anytime and anywhere, he will start his own exploration journey. Maybe you will find that the baby will often pull you and show you a flower, or try to show grandma a star he has found. In fact, these behaviors reflect that he wants to establish a bond between his relatives and him, a bond that supports him to the outside world. At this stage, parents should always hug or hug the baby and make some eye contact with him, which can stimulate the baby's desire to talk to people and then communicate. Only by exploring more and communicating with the outside world can we better stimulate the baby's brain development and make them smarter and smarter. Secret 3. Conversation experts believe that a person's flexibility in language has something to do with the vocabulary he heard in infancy. "The more you tell him, the richer his vocabulary will be. Because the baby's thoughts are still limited to specific things, so try to be brief and talk more about the baby, such as his stroller or his toys. When the baby tries to communicate with you, you can also describe his intention in words (for example: Oh, you want that bottle! )。 Tip 4: When reading, you can point to the words in the book, so that your baby can realize where what you read comes from, and the order of your reading is from left to right and from front to back. After reading a book once, you can read it for the second time and read it to him for the third time. Every time you read it, your child's impression will deepen. Don't worry that he will get bored. Being able to "predict" the next story will interest the baby. Reading together in this way helps to establish a spiritual bond between you and your baby, and it is also very helpful for your baby to learn new things. Experts believe that reading with the baby can help him master some basic information of reading and writing smoothly. In addition, if you pay attention to show him more pictures of unusual things such as tigers, ships and planes, you can also let your baby learn a lot of new things. Tip 5: Use sign language when speaking. You can communicate with your baby in sign language before he can speak. For example, "book" can be replaced by palm opening and closing, just like opening or closing a book; " "Bird" can be represented by putting the index finger and thumb on the mouth one by one, just like the shape of a bird's mouth. A survey in California shows that children who learn sign language not only speak earlier than those who don't, but also have high IQ. In other words, sign language can have a positive impact on the development of infants' IQ and language ability. What is real intellectual development? At present, many people are keen on developing children's early intelligence. Many parents teach their children literacy and arithmetic very early; Some parents also conduct early orientation training for their children. For example, very young children are forced by their parents to learn painting, calligraphy, piano and violin. In fact, this kind of education has not enhanced children's intelligence, at best, it is only some knowledge and skills, but the consequences will hinder children's normal intellectual development, cause many emotional problems for children, and lead to children's weariness of learning, physical and mental health and other problems. What is intelligence? To put it bluntly, it is a potential for people to adapt to the environment. Human beings can survive because they have the ability to constantly transform themselves according to the environment, explore the unknown world and solve the problems they face in life. Therefore, intelligence is not only manifested in skills such as reading, writing and calculation, but also includes the ability to solve various other problems and get along well with others. For example, when solving the problem of having two gas stoves, whether to use one stove to cook first and then fry, or to cook first and then fry; Cooking with two stoves at the same time requires planning, otherwise you will eat cold dishes, cold meals or waste a lot of time. For another example, a middle school student with good academic performance needs to evaluate himself correctly, adjust his time, study and life, and overcome his unstable psychology to adapt to interpersonal relationships in college. This is also a kind of intelligence, an ability to actively adjust one's psychological state. If a person does not have these abilities and only passively remembers some dead knowledge, then his life will not be great. At present, there is a widespread phenomenon in society that knowledge is valued over ability, and reading, writing and calculation are overemphasized, while the cultivation of practical ability is neglected. For example, some parents think that developing their children's intelligence means making them literate, so they try their best to prevent their children from playing and force them to recite new words. Once early literacy is put in an inappropriate position and there is no scientific teaching method, it will hinder the normal development of children, increase their mental burden, damage their physical and mental health and affect their social development. UNICEF describes early education as follows: "Early stimulation can be regarded as an integral part of early education. For children aged 0 ~ 3, it is more physiological-psychological. It is carried out through rhythm (sound, music, color and shape changes, moving objects, time interval), language, touch, action-action arrangement, etc. Toys play an extremely important role in children's early stimulation training. " Therefore, literacy is not the only important factor in early childhood education. Some parents unilaterally believe that children can only show their intelligence and wisdom as soon as possible if they can study early, while ignoring their long-term planning. In fact, the training cycle of people is very long, and different specific tasks need to be completed at different stages of education. If children's early literacy hinders the completion of tasks at that specific stage, leading to weariness and inferiority, the result will affect children's life development. The consequences may take years to show, and then it will be too late to regret. Other parents locate their children very early, regardless of their age and personal characteristics, such as learning piano, drawing and literacy. If the direction is not correct, it will also have a long-term and adverse impact on your children. The real intellectual development is aimed at children's age characteristics, according to the law, through the role of environment and education, so that children can successfully complete the development tasks at all ages, develop harmoniously in intelligence and personality, and become social members with high cognitive ability and healthy personality.