20 terrific brain-boosting ideas!

Every baby is born with 100 billion brain cells. Some of these are connected at birth, but most of them are not. It is these connections that will happen in the first five years. Therefore, more the connections, the smarter and more efficient will be your child’s brain function. But between feeding, changing nappies and catching up on lost sleep, the focus is never truly on making these connections. As your child grows older, your focus may only be on whether he sits, stands, walks and talks on time. You may fail to realise that these developments are connected to brain growth, which means that just like you take care of feeding your baby, you also require to focus on feeding his growing brain too.

Here are some brain-boosting ideas for nurturing your child’s growing brain. After all, 98 per cent of his brain develops in the first five years!