All About Right Brain Training
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If anyone have other data from other right brain training, pls share it as well.. We are now bombarded with too much false claims and outrageous marketing
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sandybeach:
If anyone have other data from other right brain training, pls share it as well.. We are now bombarded with too much false claims and outrageous marketing
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Hi all,
Just to share my experience, my girl( 41 months old) has been with SM since she turned 18 months old. she is doing, i din see any outstanding memory or deliverables yet… but one thing i feel that i get from SM, the parent-child bonding while learning together when do homepractise(flash cards/linking memory/home sheet) tt’s when u and ur child spend time to do the work together, it takes practises for our toddler to get used to the routine. and now she can memorise 50 cards(in LM) after 3 hearing from the CD. it’s fantastic. I listen together with her, but i cant remember all names, but she can, she can remember set 1c, 2C at the same time, tt’s 100 cards already and with all the names she remembers, it’s new vocab, they give big words like diploducus(dinasaurse name)… so, all in all, i can say, after about 2 years plus in SM, my girls is good in picking things she see/hear, wide vocabulary and recital (they are asked to recite new poems on monthly basis) and also maths( via listening) which when i ask her 6+1 is? she will immediately tell me 7. all by songs/listening… so it;s easier to teach …
i guess the method somehow quite effective. and im a full time working mother, i only do flash cards with her when she is 2to 3. then now, i do LM/home sheet only. -
Personally, I think if you have not tested any of the brain-training classes for a period of time, it will be difficult for you to really appreciate what these programs can do, cos every child is different. They reap different results.
I have to admit my kids aren’t geniuses and still aren’t after the training. However, the programs have certainly helped them in their learning in amazing ways.
My son who had been through the program, and with our months of diligent practice in the initial years (fr age of 3), have learnt the ‘art of photographic memory’. The results are showing even now that he is in Primary school.
He takes very little time learning spelling and ting xie since kindergarten. I’ve never actually tracked the time, but it is definitely a breeze ie. no tempers flaring and patience wearing thin. It is very easy sometimes to spend hours on these for kids because of lack of focus and perhaps wrong methods. But using photographic memory, he can focus on the words and each time that word is read, the image of it appears in his mind and he is able to put it down on paper without even using phonics. (this is not to say phonics isn’t important).
It also helps in his Chinese reading. It can sometimes take a child his age hours to read a chinese book due to the difficult words. However, if you get him to put the book away and try to remember what he has read on the 2nd sentence of the 2nd page, he can read them out to you as if the words are already there in front of him.
It is a habit of learning that they learn, and as adults when we learn this method with them, we can remind them to use them to their benefits. As we monitor the kids’ homework and learning, we sometimes forget using the right brain because we weren’t trained using it since young. But if we do remember that there is a faster and easier way of learning, and even more effective, we can appreciate how we do not have to dread hours sitting with them, learning the same thing over and over again, sometimes still not achieving much.
If any parents wishes to start their kids on right-brain training - and can afford it, please start them young because learning methods develop into habits, and it is more difficult to change/learn when they are older.
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Hi Concern2,
i totally agree with you. I will continue with SM until she starts primary school,. and soon, i will start SM with my boy who just turn one this week. -
anyone has any teacher that u know is SM which is good? thanks to let me know.im starting SM for my DS, just thinking beside my DD’s sinsei, who else i can choose, if possible.
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Hi,
I am thinking of starting my girl on SM soon. But wonder is it too late for her to start since she is already two and a half years old… -
SIP Abacus & Brain Exercise, Singapore offers the Accelerated Mental Learning Program called SIP Junior for pre-school children and it is the only course that brings together the Eastern method of Abacus and Western concept of Brain Gym excercises for a better development and coordination of the left and right brain.
SIP Abacus & Brain Exercise, Singapore is the master franchise for Singapore and is part of the global network of SIP Academy that is today present in over 16 countries. There are a few centers functional and coming up in Singapore and you can check out the program on http://www.sipbrainpower.sg. -
EASON MAGPIES:
Hi,
Yes I also like to know as some of those children who attend 8-10 years ago would have grown up. Wonder what is their experience and by now should see effect in full.sandybeach:
Hi, I have just spoken to a mummy who used to send her son to Shichida, the child now do quite ok in school, among the top 100. The results is good, but it appears to me that it is far from the outrageous results that Shichida claims.
Since the program is already almost 40 years, and already in Sg for 10++ years, I was wondering if there is any results to proof that the methods work? I have been searching around google but no luck.
Anyone with the answers?
I think I'm one of those you're looking for ... son attended Shichida Method (SM) when he was in K1, now he's sec 1. My main intention then was to improve his attention span, wh I find he was lacking in.
My memory is a bit hazy now plus we only attended abt 2 - 3 terms. Son did enjoy the lessons very much - all aspects of the prog as it was prog in a v.fun way. And I guess his competitive streak was also stroked, when he got his ans correct/wrong vs his classmates.
Actually the cheap skate in me just wanted to attend for short term & DIY after that since I'm a SAHM. Some materials we got fm them & the rest like flashcards etc, I DIY myself ( often working into the early morning hrs).
Ok - the results. Can't give testimony that son is like their adverts testimonies but I could see his memory is gd, no problem at all with ting xie for both EL & CL, Maths is also gd ( but I don't think his Maths is attributed to SM). Attention span improved - but it's a slow process as he grew up. Oh, academic results wise, PSLE he did well enough to get into our desired sch.
Think that's abt it.
P.S
1.Don't know why - feel a bit sheepish abt this sharing
2. The P's (JK) youngest son happened to be in son's class ( but he's 1 yr younger) ... chaperoned by their helper ... -
QuiteKSMum:
hi, ur DS only attended for 2-3 terms..i feel that cannot be the result of SM ba.. i would love to see mummy whose child has been with SM for at least 3 years and above and see if they excel in their studies in school.
I think I'm one of those you're looking for ... son attended Shichida Method (SM) when he was in K1, now he's sec 1. My main intention then was to improve his attention span, wh I find he was lacking in.
My memory is a bit hazy now plus we only attended abt 2 - 3 terms. Son did enjoy the lessons very much - all aspects of the prog as it was prog in a v.fun way. And I guess his competitive streak was also stroked, when he got his ans correct/wrong vs his classmates.
Actually the cheap skate in me just wanted to attend for short term & DIY after that since I'm a SAHM. Some materials we got fm them & the rest like flashcards etc, I DIY myself ( often working into the early morning hrs).
Ok - the results. Can't give testimony that son is like their adverts testimonies but I could see his memory is gd, no problem at all with ting xie for both EL & CL, Maths is also gd ( but I don't think his Maths is attributed to SM). Attention span improved - but it's a slow process as he grew up. Oh, academic results wise, PSLE he did well enough to get into our desired sch.
Think that's abt it.
P.S
1.Don't know why - feel a bit sheepish abt this sharing
2. The P's (JK) youngest son happened to be in son's class ( but he's 1 yr younger) ... chaperoned by their helper ...
bcos, my understanding is, each level in SM, has differennt apparoach/testing they call it brain olympic and now brain excellent.