How do i make my 2 yr old smarter? help teaching colours, numbers,alphabet etc.......?

Question

any help or brain games would be appreciated thanks

Answer 1

You must be persistent and have patience and lots of it. Whatever you decide to do, repetition is key. Talk to him as you would an adult. We never used baby talk in our house, one less thing to correct later on. Good luck!

Answer 2

Sing!  Start with those good old childhood songs:

Twinkle, Twinkle

Mary Had a Little Lamb

ABCs

Singing is a left side of the brain activitiy.

Not comfortable with singing kids songs?  Try some children's CDs i.e. Greg and Steve, Raffi, Hap Palmer.

Talk!  When your 2yo points at something tell him/her everything you can think of even if you think it is too advanced.  Your child's vocabulary depends on you.  You could say, "That's a big black dog."  or "That's John's dog, it's a black lab.  It has coarse shiny fur."  No need to explain big words like coarse your child will learn the meaning with experience.  So if you can go to "John's" house and pet the dog do it.

When riding in the car together turn off the radio and talk.  Explain stop lights and then point out the color of every stop light you see.

Name the street you are on or the direction you are going.

Talk!!

Read!  Go to the library and get the chubby little board books.  You don't need a lot of words but rather good pictures to look at and discuss.  You need to build your child's ability to listen and focus on books be for you choose stories with plots.  

My 2yo loves to have bedtime stories.  She has a shelf of board books and a few short picture books.  She doesn't always stay focused but we don't stop reading even if she is playing with her dolls.

Count!  You will be amazed how quickly your 2yo will start counting with you.  We count during toothbrushing, diaper changes, when she can't settle down for a nap.  The repetitive and rythmic nature of counting is very relaxing and it also uses the left side of the brain.

So when you can't think of anything else to talk about say, "Hey, let's count."  I have counted up to four hundred while my daughter drifted off to sleep in my arms.

Avoid the TV!  It is not reccomended for children under three.

If your child is watching TV you should be there watching it together.  If you have to use it as a baby sitter than choose realistic programs instead of cartoons.  Choose an animal show or turn it off and try some of your favorite music.

Your child is capable of asorbing so much information so give out as much as possible.

Oh!  Enjoy, love, and laugh.  Make each moment one to remember because your 2yo will be 10 before you know it.

Answer 3

Does anyone let their children play anymore?  Children learn best through play. So if you want them to learn something do it while playing.  For instance: play-dough, have different colors, and point out the colors.  But do not drill your children, they tend to shut down, and do not actually learn very well.

Answer 4

In addition to the good suggestions from Aims be sure to use the names of items as you do routine things with your child.

For example:

"Now we're going to put your red shirt on." (not just "put this on")

"Look at the red stripes on your socks."

"Do you want to drink from the red cup or the blue one?" (while pointing out or holding up the colour as you mention it)

Also you can point out letters as you see them in real life especially if they are in your child's name.

For example if your child's name is Wendy show her the big Woolworth's W.

Read to her/him and have conversations about your child's day.

Answer 5

Talk to him using descriptive words. Point out letters, numbers and colors no matter where you are. Make it fun, happy times. Sing nursery rhymes and all kinds of songs. Read books and look at picture books with your child. Two year olds, almost any age actually know a many things but haven't decide to express them yet or had the chance to yet. Once they start there is no stopping him. Mostly keep it fun.

Answer 6

Greetings!  Most people hit it on the head, but the first thing you need to do is TALK,TALK, TALK.  Describe what you see to your child.  Have him or her tell you things, even if what they say is gobbledygook.  Talk about the strong wind, the rain, the blue sky, the muddy water.

When your child is in the bath, talk about the wet water or the yellow duck.

Another great thing to do is to read books to your child.  There are lots of books on colors, numbers, shapes, letters.  Have him or her pick out his/her favorite book and read it.  Odds are likely, they will want to have you read it over and over and over again.  That's okay.  It will help them understand what words are, what colors are, what letters are.

Let him or her see their whole name in print.  Point out the letters in their name.  After a while, the child will pick up and want to write their name, then other letters...then count the ducks in the pond....it goes on and on.

It's really simple.  It sounds silly, but it really works.  And your two year old will eat it up.

Hope this helps.  Take care.

Answer 7

make it as fun as possible! Alsos, kids THRIVE on priase and the more they see that you are proud of them the more they will keep doing it.... When my son was a year and a half we did these things...

Nature walks... go for a walk and discuss colors of what you see, shapes, etc.

Pictures... ask them to draw a picture of something specific :Basketball, square, etc.

Count steps... also good on the nature walk

Have them pretend to be a different animal everyday, tell them the animals sounds, where they live and what they eat.

Good luck!!

Answer 8

Teach him to read.  You heard me.  2 people I respect, my daughter's English teacher who teaches gifted students, and another told me how.  the English teacher of gifted kids said she started at 18months with her kid, just taught her words as a whole and the kid sat and she was surrounded in a circle with words by the end and the mom said,j point to WORD and the kid pointed to that word, etc.  By 2 years old, amazing.  Oh, and why do it at age 2?  Because then your kid can read and you made it fun and the kid feels positively about reading and loves it and it is a natural part of life and the kid just does it and that early early exposure assures a lifetime of reading and it's all just so easy!!!  

Let's see if I can find it.

Here's a hodgepodge, but teachermama's answer is what yu want:

One response:

That book is called "How To Teach Your Baby To Read" by Glenn Doman. It is wonderful, and still available. It worked like a charm with my two-year-old.

You should be aware that kids of illiterate parents are just like other kids. All kids can benefit from this kind of teaching. I have taught many students of illiterate parents, and I have found them to be intelligent and very motivated to help their children learn to read. One way they can do this is if you send home picture books and have the parents tell the story to the child based on what is happening in the pictures. This pre-reading activity is very valuable even if it happens in another language than English. It helps the child develop concepts and vocabulary, and excitement about books.

Another response:

Forget the research. I have taught several little ones to read, two of my own at ages 18 mos. and 2. I got my inspiration almost 30 years ago from a book called, I think, "You Can Teach Your Baby to Read" But it may just be, "Teach Your Baby to Read." The author, I think, was Glenn Dolman. It was a long time ago. And, of course, I wasn't illiterate. But the whole idea was to make it fun. I didn't follow his ideas very strictly, either. I just put words on cards and got my child to read them. In fact, with the first, he "read" his first word at 9 months. His first word was "ball" and he would repeat it for me any time I said, "say ball." So then, I wrote the word on a card, and got him to say ball when I held up the card. Then I went nuts and squealed and said he was a clever baby and so he would say ball every time I held up the card. When he learned to say "Mama" a few days later, I put the word "Mama on a card and held it up. In minutes, he could distinguish between the two, and I would cheer him on. By 18 months, he had a 60-word speaking and reading vocabulary. Everyone thought it was amazing. Then I got pregnant with the next one, was really busy, we moved, etc. I didn't get around to seriously teaching him again until he was 3. And it was easy. Then, the next year, when he was 4 and his sister was 2, I taught her to read. They are 29 and 27 now, and are both avid readers. Get the book. Make it fun. And don't start with boring, words like bat, sat, hat. Do words that grab their attention. I've been a reading teacher for over 30 years. I have discovered something amazing. If you teach a child to read in that window of time before they analyze things, just like language, they learn it easily and figure out the phonics for themselves. I f you wait until the ripe old age of 5 or 6, then they usually need phonics instruction, and methods to make it work. I don't know if this is true in all languages, but in English, where we have over a dozen different spellings for the sound of oo, as in boot, once children are old enough to analyze, and try to figure things out, it is harder to teach, but there is that window of time, when they can put it all together. You could make an amazing difference in these children's lives if you taught them now. I hope you do it.

Answer 9

talk to them as much as possible in normal speaking manner(no baby talk).  And read to them as much as possible.

Answer 10

Why is it so important to you to make him smarter? Give your child the time to develop that he needs, he will learn that kind of stuff early enough. There's certain ages where children are most susceptible for learning stuff, so it's a good idea to offer certain activities at certain ages. I think it is pointless to teach a 2-year-old numbers and especially the alphabet. What's the point? Do you want to impress the relatives? Then maybe you should learn a new language instead of pushing your child to learn things he's not ready to do yet.

Answer 11

Colorful objects & thing written in different font will help you. I did the same with my 2 years old cousine. It is fun. Try it.

Answer 12

I'm not sure you can 'make him smarter', but you can see that he is better informed and is exposed to a variety of things.  

You could go to the public library and check out age

appropriate books to read with him.  Ask the librarian for books about pre-school subjects.  You might consider checking out some of the homeschooling sites for kindergarten aged students, but probably the best thing to do is speak to him often about a variety of things (this includes comments about what you watch on the news.  Just use words that you know he understands and this gives him a chance to learn the new words that he doesn't understand.

No matter what subject you want him to learn, a broad vocabulary in a broad array of subjects will improve his chances of understanding any other subject when it arises.

Sooo, you might try working on your own vocabulary (it truly will help his).  And as far as numbers and colors and letters go, just point them out often wherever you are and whenever the opportunity comes up.

For example:  Driving along the street.  "Oh, look the light is red.  We better stop"  "Oh good, it's green now, we can go."

"Look over there,  There are two boys and 1 girl.  What do you think those three are playing?"

See, it doesn't have to look like a lesson, just an observation.  After all, mostly that's why math is important, not because we can add the numbers, so much as the numbers just make sense and are part of what we naturally think and do.

Keep pointing out the obvious in his environment and when he wants to do the same, then encourage him and listen to what he has to say.

Good Luck.  Have Fun!

Answer 13

You are never going to teach all of those things to a 2 year old and make them "smarter" in the end if you try to push them like that you are going to hinder their learning later.

What I would recommend is just play games and buy toys that you can ask questions that relate to those things.

I work at a day care center in a toddler room and I can tell you most of the 2 year olds can't tell you any numbers besides how old they are for the most part and basic colors and maybe a letter or 2 in their name.

besides 2 year olds really don't play game games. They usually don't sit still for more than a few mins.

Asking questions is usually the way to go.

If they are sitting there maybe playing with blocks ask them if they know any colors, then which color is their favorite, and count with them how many blocks are that color.

just don't be pushy. if they don't respond then drop it. wait till they are interested