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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Read to your child every day (at least 30 minutes). Listen to music and audio books when in the car.  Have music on at home.   Talk to your child without using baby talk,  Use your full vocabulary.  Take your child to the library- utlizied the programs there, Smithsonian museums, zoo, art museums, aquariums, children's museums.....   Play with your child on the floor every day.  Let them play with the pots and pans.  Get some blocks and cars and dolls. When they are old enough get them some legos - plain ones - a bucket of odds and ends- easy to find at yards sales and church rummage sales.  Play peakaboo.  Snuggle with your child.  Hug them every day.  Look them in the eye.  Let them help you with cleaning and cooking - even if it means taking longer and more clean up.  Take chances, make mistakes, get messy.  :)  GO on hikes and nature walks- plenty of nature centers in the area.  Walk on the tow path.  Bike out to Mount Vernon.  Get a fish tank.  Take advantage of the free stuff at Milenium Stage at the Kennedy Center.  Take them to children's plays.  In the absence of active grandparents or Aunts and Uncles, find other adults that they can meet and connect.  Go to the airport and watch the planes land and take off.  Take the metro and get in the first car and watch the tunnels.  Take them out for a picnic on the Mall and fly a kite.

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This. So much of what gives some kids advantages happen outside the classroom.  Use big words. Explain them as necessary. Read, read, read, read, and read some more.

FWIW, I'm reading "Myth of the Spoiled a Child" right now and one thing Kohn points out "controlling parenting has been associated with lower levels of intrinsic motivation."   Not saying you are controlling, but I post this to support PP's more laid-back approach.  Because this  has been my experience. The moms who control every aspect of their child's lives, particularly their education, in hopes of getting into the best program/best school/best college have, without exception, completely unmotivated kids. The moms who support and encourage their kids without programming every minute of every day, seem to have very motivated kids. And motivation will help carry your child a long way.

There is natural intelligence, of course, but don't discount practice. It matters a lot.[/quote]

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