Are you aware of the eight kinds of intelligence, and the fact that each child is born with a unique distribution of each? Some of these intelligence types may surprises you:
1. Emotional Intelligence: Some children have strong emotional intelligence and have a unique ability to establish and maintain healthy relationship with others and themselves. They are able to handle feelings and empathize.
2. Academic Intelligence: Those who have strong academic intelligence do well in school, for they can sit, listen, learn and absorb and comprehend. Yet, it doesn't mean they can apply all this knowledge or use it constructively in life.
3. Physical Intelligence: These children do well at sport, as well as maintain their bodies in a positive way. Example ballet dancer.
4. Creative Intelligence: These children have a more developed imagination. When the imagination is stimulated, it grows. They often think differently, are more original and create in their own way.
5. Artistic Intelligence: The children are interested in drawing, writing, acting, singing, playing instrument and so on.
6. Commonsense Intelligence: These children are practical rather than intellectual. They want what is relevant and useful. They want to apply what works.
7. Intuitive Intelligence: Information simply just come to the children rather than being taught or told. It is as if they have sixth sense and can understand information without having to study all the details.
8. Gifted Intelligence: The children are good at certain types of intelligence, but not as good at others. It seems that all their eggs end up in one basket. They may need to develop their special skills, as well as get help for other kinds of intelligence.
So which types of intelligence is your child gifted?
Two children may be gifted in the same area of intelligence, but they may reflect it differently because of variables such as personality and environment.
Most important, if a child focuses only on his or her strengths, the child misses out on other parts of life, which creates imbalance.
Our task as parents is not to fall into the trap of encouraging our children's strength alone but to encourage other areas as well.
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