Well, reading and writing are coding and decoding sounds and ideas, so it is an abstraction skill because those are not concrete things, and math is abstracted relationships of quantity. For general improvement through brain development, performance music and dancing are tops as they use several areas of the brain at once and promote connections. So even if your child is tone deaf and has no rhythm, something like that should be encouraged.
This is what I was thinking. Training children to be strong in math & reading at an early age seems to be key components of high intelligence.
If we also teach them compassion for others during the early years, it helps quite a bit too.
Well, reading and writing are coding and decoding sounds and ideas, so it is an abstraction skill because those are not concrete things, and math is abstracted relationships of quantity. For general improvement through brain development, performance music and dancing are tops as they use several areas of the brain at once and promote connections. So even if your child is tone deaf and has no rhythm, something like that should be encouraged.
Great point. I forgot how much that helped me when growing up.