How to Develop a Child's Right and Left Brain Coordination

It's true that many of our chances to be smart adults are affected by what we do and learn when we're very young. You can help your child to develop the important communication of the right brain and the left brain with simple, fun activities children love. Children who are exposed to stimuli that encourages cross brain cooperation have shown in studies to perform better in math and reading at an early age.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

1. Get your infant moving. Lie your child on the floor and move the arms and legs around while smiling. The child will want to explore the movement. This stimulates cross hemisphere development as young as six weeks old.
2. Create safe opportunities for your toddler to climb, jump and run where they have to negotiate three dimensional space. Even building up blocks or cushions and pillows and knocking them down encourages brain development especially for reading and writing.
3. Develop hand eye coordination by rolling, throwing and bouncing all different sorts of balls. Infants can be shown to transfer objects from hand to hand and encouraged to grasp objects.
4. Teach your seven or eight year old how to do origami to increase develop interaction between the two hemispheres by combining intellectual and creative function.
5. Encourage use of the non-dominant hand. By eighteen months one hand begins to be more dominant. Challenge a child in a fun way to color, throw, brush her hair or eat with the other hand.