Brain boosting, Singapore
More than 360,000 babies are born every day on the planet
and many parents see education as the main factor in their
children’s success later on in life. So much so, that for some
.children education starts almost at birth
The Baby Jumper Gym in Singapore, a child enrichment
centre, aims to encourage babies’ brains to grow. Teachers
there use brain stimulating techniques to foster children’s
mental and physical skills. They aim to stimulate young
.brains as much as possible
The curriculum covers all sorts of mental and physical skills
using left and right brain training techniques aimed at
accelerating learning power, and teaching social and
independent skills Erika Leung, the director said: “Basically
what we do is provide the whole brain stimulation, so we
teach flash cards to these babies and children, and we also
expose them to different kinds of activities in one session
starting from music, mathematics, learning language,
second language and also physical activities and fine
motor skills, in one session with the parents involve
.in the classroom
The staff believe that every baby is born a genius, and that
with the right educating technique and the right environment
parents can guide their babies towards better and faster
learning Visual stimulation is thought to boost learning by
developing and sharpening the right brain’s visualisation skill
.intuition and creativity
Erika Leung, the director of the Baby Jumper Gym explained
What we do is to show them one card and then we show
them two cards and they will point us which one was shown
in the first time. This is basically to train the photographic
.memory, right brain stimulation
The theory goes that because a baby’s brain triples in size
during the first two years of its life, this is the right time to
.start educating a child
A parent whose child attends the centre said, “Everybody
starts young, all the CEO now are very young, during our
.times CEOs were so old and presidents were so old
Nowadays everybody is so young. So, the way we see this
today is that if we don’t start early then maybe it’s too late
.They also try to give babies physical skills to improve agility