Growth of intelligence in child

With the birth of child, consciousness is only limited to emotions representing basic inherent memory. As the child grows, it learns to correlate various events in stored memory to decide the course of action for giving response  to perceptions. This can be termed as intelligence.  Child tries to copy behavior of elders to get recognition and praise. It also stores all observations in nature.  Initially it does not differentiate between living and nonliving. Hence likes toys and assigns  consciousness to them.

 My son in childhood had drawn a picture of morning sunrise scene. It was something like picture shown. He had drawn his face in the picture and believed that he should be in the picture to see it. After some thought I found some meaning in his belief. Truly, painting of any scene depends on the viewers   perception of it.  

My grandson had drawn a picture of elephant washing car with water spray. My grand daughter had drawn picture of fish with mobiles.This shows how children relate their observations and give innovative solutions.

Children get pleasure in repeating the actions which employ acquired intelligence. My grandson when learned to open the lock with key was so fascinated by the result that he roamed from door to door with a key in hand to open the lock. We often notice the interest taken by children in playing with toys and interacting with them .  They take pleasure in repetition of these actions any number of times.

One child learning alphabets saw the pictures of Elephent and Rabit on picture chart. It stored the images in its memory. But thought both these animals to be of similar size. When it saw the elephant in zoo, it could not believe its eyes. Actual observation corrected error in his comprehension about the size.

You can add many such observations and remember events which throw light on the process of intelligence growth in child.  It is necessary to compile all such data to formulate general guidelines for teaching the children. Practice of memorization  by reciting number of times does help in creating lasting memory sequence but does not add to the intelligence in real sense, though it provides ready answers to established questions.With the present examination system relying on objective tests, memorization is a sure way of getting success. But to face a real life problem or to answer tricky verbal questions, it does not help.

 Children do not differentiate the people based on age or gender.  Once while playing with my grand daughter  I asked her  to dance .  After her dance, she said, now I will see and you dance.


Many a times elder people try to explain the things  to children using logic of cause effect relationship, but the children fail to  understand  because they lack necessary  intelligence to grasp the facts. However, if we explain the things considering their limited scope of experience and wrap the  facts into objects of their familiar world and give importance to their ego thing become easy. 

We elder people do  tune our personality with the hero or heroine in the  novels and movies.  That is somewhat difficult for children. Hence when I tell stories to children, I invariably make that child a hero of the story.  Then the child likes the story.