It wasn't Albert Einstein, but your child: 5 ways to make your children smarter than others

Each parent knows that instilling in children a love of knowledge (which is power) is not the easiest task. Many of those faced with the upbringing of the younger generation will agree that it is easier, perhaps, to launch a rocket into space, create a perpetual motion machine and make a child eat celery (still goosebumps).

Unfortunately, the areas of hobbies of most modern children are far from science: computer games, video blogs, dubious cartoons and comics. They are interested not in learning and gaining new knowledge, but in catching Pokemon and broadcasting their gameplay to Twitch. This is undoubtedly frightening and alarming.

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On the other hand, all is not lost: the other day the media reported that Russian schoolchildren won four medals at the World Robot Olympiad in India. Hardly anyone would refuse to become a parent of one of these guys. Question: how to make it so that the child's study of the basics of the universe was not a burden, but a joy? The current "digital" generation is used to perceiving information with the help of audio and video, and when it comes to studying, it is easier for them to see and try for themselves than to read and connect the imagination.

From an interview with Anna Varga, Candidate of Psychological Sciences, member of the Board of the Society of Family Counselors and Psychotherapists, to the Harvad Business Review magazine

Perhaps few things in this regard will help better than interactive education in the form of a fun game. For example, if you conduct a fun experiment together with a child, the knowledge in his head will remain for a long time. It's December, the New Year is coming, and it's time to choose a gift for your future genius. If you don't know yet what is so cool and exciting to give to a child, we have something interesting for you. We will tell you how fun and hassle-free to instill in children a love of science.

How to educate a researcher who will create a cure for cancer?

You need to start small. For example, with the basics of chemistry. Argue with the child that he will not be able to pour the water out of the glass, and then add the powder from nikolashka "Water Gel" to the water and see what happens next: after a few seconds, the liquid will become several times thicker. Can you explain the meaning of what is happening from a scientific point of view? The powder consists of sodium polyacrylate, which is able to absorb liquids 200-300 times its own weight. The same substance is widely used in the household industry (for example, detergents) and is absolutely not dangerous to health.

Another substance that has the wonderful property of absorbing large volumes of water is hydrogel. It is from him that nikolyashki "Growing figures" are made. Now you can arrange summer in the apartment at any time of the year: leaving a rose or a spider in contact with water at night, in the morning the child will find that they have "grown up". Both "Water gel" and "Growing figures" are in the "New Year's set of a researcher". Among other things, there are also sweets in the gift, so you can combine business with pleasure. You can buy it here.

How to raise a professor who will pass on knowledge to several generations of students in the future?

Children easily remember the information that is given to them in the form of a fun game. The "Professor's New Year's Set" will help with this. With nikolyashka "Artificial Snow" you can always not only learn chemistry, but also create an atmosphere of a winter holiday around. The composition includes the already familiar sodium polyacrylate, which absorbs water and turns into a small home snowdrift. By the way, this is the kind of snow used in the theater and on film sets. In the same set, colored polymer balls are so beautiful and pleasant to the touch that you just don't want to let them out of your hands. If you put them in water at room temperature, they will double in a day. And if you take it out, the balls will become small again.

The professor, it seems, should know a little more than a researcher. This means that there should be more training experiments in the set "for professors". Do you know what a "non-Newtonian fluid" is? This is a liquid whose viscosity depends on the speed. That is, the more force you apply when throwing, the stronger the substance will bounce off the table or ceiling. Lizun, who is also included in the set for future professors, will help explain this to your child. There are also new clingers made of a special stretchy material, which later regains its usual shape: among them, a dolphin cling and even a snake cling - long, stringy and sticky. The kids will be thrilled. Sweets are attached to this beauty. You can buy the "Professor's New Year's Set" here.

How to help a child become an academic who will receive a Nobel Prize?

Remember the school: in the lessons on those subjects that did not seem very interesting to you, it was terribly boring, I did not want to learn anything. How much do you remember from physics lessons now, for example? Education should be bright, interactive and exciting. In the "Academician's New Year's Set" you can find nikolyashka "Giant colored balls": they grow to such a size that only a couple of pieces can hardly fit in your hand. And to develop the imagination, with which, as it turned out, the current "digital" generation has problems, magic plasticine will help. Unlike the usual one, it does not get dirty and leaves no traces. Also in the set for young academicians — nikolyashka "Artificial snow", lizun, stick and candy. You can buy it here.

How to instill in a child a passion for exciting experiments?

According to legend, Newton discovered the law of attraction after seeing an apple fall from a tree to the ground. How do the laws of nature work? Why are some objects transparent, that is, capable of transmitting light, while others are not? A large set of "Growing Balls" experiments will help to deal with this: in water, these polymers will increase in size and seem as if painted, because they themselves consist of water by 95%. And there are others: opaque in a dry state, but becoming invisible in water. See for yourself! Also in the set you will find growing insects and roses. You can buy it here.

How to educate a pioneer?

We continue to instill in children a love of science with the help of impressive experiments. Bright crystals are fascinating, and with the set of "Amazing Polymers" you can grow them right at home. It is only necessary to add water, and the crystals suddenly change in color and grow. Not a bad idea for home decor