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Summer Brain Drain
Tips to Help Your Child Avoid Summer Brain Drain
By Thomas Haller and Chick Moorman
- Model learning. Turn off the TV and get away from the video games. Let your kids catch you reading this summer. Learn a new computer program. Start that book you've been wanting to write. Expand your horizons this summer with a wood carving class, parenting workshop, pottery or painting class.
- Get help. Every community has learning activities for kids. Libraries have reading programs. Recreation centers and churches have day camps. Schools have inventor's camps. Art Institutes have drawing, painting, pottery and drama classes for children. Sign your kids up.
Create a summer that balances rest, relaxation and fun with learning. Use the many opportunities that summer offers to help your children grow their brain. If you do you will help your children begin the new school year right where they left off when school ended this year. And the only summer slide they'll experience will be the one at the recreation center or water park.
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