How to develop your child's rationality and thinking ability

Children's mental capacities often depend on their inherited traits, along with other factors that can encourage or impede the progress of these abilities. And the environment around the child often contains most of these factors through its various influences on the senses and minds of children.

And children have a similar mental development at close rates (almost), and may take some children longer than others to understand some things, although all children are almost equal in the level of intelligence.

However, when parents discover that there is a marked delay in mental development, the causes of the child's mental state must be identified and addressed early, Where the treatment of many cases of mental retardation is in its infancy can achieve excellent results.

The effect of sensory completeness in the development of thinking ability in children

It is recognized that the problems of hearing and sight or incomplete development of the rest of the senses such as sense of smell, touch or taste has a negative impact on the development of the mind of children.

And by Intuitive, the child whose organs and senses are complete will be able to understand and comprehend the environment and the events that revolve around him faster than other children who suffer from deficient or have incomplete senses. Also, a child with full organs and senses will learn more by sharing more than learning through observation.

Most children are born with sensitive senses and have the ability to recognize the environment and what is going on, around the child. These senses make the child easily absorb all the information and sights he or she is given, and little by little the child's brain takes care of this information, organizing it and translating it into meanings of his own.

And from child's sources of information are his open fingers. For example, when he holds one of the things and separates his fingers, this thing falls to the ground causing a certain sound. But, if the mother linked a toy with his bed pillars, when the child pulls it with his hand the toy will not fall on the ground. And therefore no sound is made because it is tied so that it will not hit the ground. But, the toy bounce with a certain force if left by the child from his hand. And so the child learn some things about the movement and gravity and nature of materials.

In the first years of a child's age, his brain develops and grows rapidly and continuously, and most of his senses are completed in a few months after birth. And this has a significant impact on the development of the child's mental abilities and the brain improvement.

When the child reaches the age of five, he will  absorbed most of the basic mental skills, and when the ability to speak is added to the child's mental abilities, he or she can express what he thinks or wants to do with words. So that this ability to express creates in the child what is known as contemplative or theoretical thinking. And as the child continues to absorb information, his mind begins to look at the world in front of him as if seen from an opening that widens over time.

The influence of organic factors in the development of thinking ability in children

We can add to all of the above (organic factors) of the body that greatly affect the mental development of children. In the first months of pregnancy, the child will be affected by certain diseases that affect the mother (or even the father), such as the mother infected with the German measles or the child's mind is affected by excessive smoking from the mother during the pregnancy.

The child's mental development is also affected by injuries which the child can be exposed to it during the birth process, such as brain trauma or body exposure to certain twists and Distortions.

The child is also affected by the activity of the glands (especially the thyroid gland). The child's brain is also affected by the diseases that he or she is infected with while he is in the cradle, especially the case of undernourishment. All this must be considered when assessing the mental development of any child.

But, in modern life, many of these organic problems have disappeared because of the vaccination systems imposed by many countries. In addition to the tremendous progress in the care of the child while he is a fetus in the mother's womb. And during childbirth as well as medical care after birth at optimal form

The influence of the social environment in the development of thinking ability in children

The child reacts and adapts to his world in his own way. Nature, including rain, sun, heat and wind, has a great impact on the development of consciousness and its expansion in children. But, one of the factors that has the most positive (mostly) affect on the mental development of children is the (people) who appear in the environment surrounding the child such as grandparents, postman and milk seller as well as the children of neighbors.

Speech, interaction and emotional matters affect positively or negatively the development of children's minds. At this early age, the child cannot only store information but also classify this information and draw conclusions.

The mental development of children depends on the ability of the child's mind to organize any information received by his mind. For example, when new information reaches his mind, he will try to connect this information with similar old information or in the same subject that deals with it.

To illustrate the issue more, imagine a two-year-old child who sees some birds for the first time flies and then lands to pick up the grain. At that moment, he forms the primary image of the birds as the objects that fly and then go down to eat. But, when he grows up a little and his parents go with him to the zoo he sees a different bird and that is (ostriches), and although it is a bird, it does not fly. And here his thought begins expands on the birds as well as its world of birds that fly alongside birds that cannot fly.

And the child may ask his parents about the inability of the bird (ostriches) to fly, despite having wings? And perhaps respond that birds have wings that help them fly and escape quickly from any danger they face. But, ostrich does not need to fly because it is large in size. And has long legs to help him run quickly so he does not need to fly any risk. And because ostriches do not use these wings for a long period of time so the wings lose their function! And in this organizational process of information there is a continuous expansion in the child's knowledge and experience.

Therefore, we advise any parents not to neglect any question asked by their child (spontaneously). The answer will be dug in the child's mind and relied on to build his understanding of the reality in which he lives. Parents may need to search some books they have to find out the  correct answers, ask some of their colleagues, or search for answers on the Internet.

Every question from their child must have a correct answer or approach that simplifies understanding of the child's mind and brings him closer to the comprehension of things. But, if the answer is complex, parents should simplify and re-format the information so that the child understands it easily.

Parents can develop the process by providing new information about the creature or object that their son had previously seen. From the previous example, through a book about birds or watching a television show showing other models of birds or objects. And all new information in the same subject interfere with the child's awareness and mind.

The same thing when a child sees in animation shows and programs about animal life some objects behave in a certain way like a woodpecker. The child needs a specific answer as to why this bird insists on doing this strange act (which is the wood clicking)!

And through the successive and continuous answers that the parents are keen to provide to their child properly and in a simplified way that the child understands a lot and a lot about his world and is not surprised by the actions of objects or people or things surrounding

Toys and their role in the development of thinking capacity in the child

Often the (parents' look) at their toddler's passion for playing and his interest in it is that playing is nothing more than entertaining or distracting their child's mind, but the fact is that children's play has a very strong and vital effect on the development of the child's awareness and cognitive development.

Through play, the child discovers things, learns some information, and improves his emotions. For example, get rid of fear of animals and even be friends with them.

Different types of toys play other roles in children's lives. There are some toys that must be beaten violently to release the child from the aggressive. And there are toys that help the child to sleep, and there is also another (toys) to help develop (simple) physical or mental abilities in children.

And here we must be aware that toys are not those things that we find only in the shops of children's toys! Anything that enters the child's world or falls into his or her hand can turn into a toy in which the child learns something different. The child turns anything into a toy.

And the first toy cause excitement to the child is the face of his mother! And so he is always tampering with it trying to discover the secrets of the features and movements and the warmth of feelings

And if the parents wanted to buy a toy for their young child, they must first ask the seller about the usefulness of this toy and its purpose. It is not reasonable to buy a toy that does not interest the child and does not help him to intellectual progress in life.

The purchase of a new toy must be done after the young child loses interest in the old toy and the parents feel that the old toy have served the purpose for which they were made, but they should not buy the toys only in the seasons and holidays!

When children play, children do not have rules and principles to play! Even if the parents try to turn the game into an education, they will destroy the spontaneous in the play, which is part of their own child's childhood.

It is, therefore, preferable for parents to be careful to let their son discover the toy himself. And use his mind in an attempt to know the best way to play and get the knowledge required through his own thinking only