How do I make my children excel?

superiority

The outstanding students are distinguished from other ordinary children by their progress in different fields and in many directions. In addition to their academic excellence, they excel in other activities and directions in which they prove their success, as they have the ability to innovate, and they practice various activities in which they are creative, such as cultural, social, and sports activities.

Definition of superiority

The superior is the child who is distinguished by extraordinary abilities and qualities; it is social, and adapts to others, and some defined it as the child's privilege in academic achievement; So that his total score is better than his colleagues, and his high achievement is remarkable, and his achievement is distinguished from others, and others believe that excellence is simply the child’s ability to excel and achieve, and some said that excellence is not limited to academic achievement, but also excellence is in a specific skill, or in set of skills.

Titles distinguished by the superior

People used many phrases and terms denoting the superior child who was distinguished from his peers by his intelligence and acumen, and among these terms: gifted, genius, brilliant child, genius child, distinguished child, and the most widespread and common titles among people are the title of gifted child.

The phenomenon of academic excellence

The phenomenon of academic excellence is one of the important phenomena that interest in it is increasing day after day, and the interest of educators and psychologists is increasing in academic excellence precisely because they are the national wealth of any country, and they are the inventors and scientists of the future, through whom nations rise and prosper, and live in luxury and bliss.

Recent studies have shown that students who excel academically have characteristics and characteristics that differ from others, such as self-confidence and their ability to adapt socially with others. They live in a good sense of psychological and social security, while some of the latecomers suffer from many psychological problems. such as weak self-confidence, inability to communicate with others, feeling insecure, lack, deprivation, disorder and psychological anxiety; Therefore, the importance of the attention of both parents and educators to the need to raise the level of students and make them excel academically, and to search and investigate the most important means and ways to achieve this and reach the required result.

How do I make my son one of the high achievers?

There are many methods that show superiority in children and help in their mental development, and among these methods are the following:

• Focusing on developing the child's mental abilities through various means and methods, including choosing games for developing children's intelligence, asking some questions that require careful thinking, or solving a group of puzzles.
• Diversity in the process of education and receiving information in various fields at different levels of study, and not focusing on one type of science or knowledge; It is important to educate and teach the child the linguistic aspect, as well as the science of logic, arithmetic and other various sciences.
• Effective practical cooperation and partnership between the family side and the school side, through constant and continuous communication to clarify the aspects and skills that can be developed in the outstanding child, and the parents’ statement to the teachers of the reality of the child and his superiority, and their role in helping parents to increase this excellence, and to know the aspects in which the child excels; So that the school provides him with the necessary means, competitions and incentives, and appropriate educational care methods to make him more superior and distinguished from his other peers.
• Lack of control and domination of the child by the parents, leaving him the freedom to express his opinion and make the decision as he wants and as he deems appropriate.
• Leaving the child free to discover the environment around him; Excessive care and extreme fear for the child suppresses his freedom and limits his intelligence.
• Reading books and stories in front of the child, using the guidance method, and not resorting to violence, punishment, or beating.

Reasons for mental superiority

The child's mental activity is determined by a group of factors; Some of them are environmental, some are individual, and others are a mixture of environmental and individual factors. Some studies have indicated that genetic factors have an important role in the child's mental superiority. Mentally gifted children walk, speak, and read faster than their peers, and this speed of growth is difficult to relate to environmental factors, but it can be said that the environment in which the gifted child grew up was a cultural environment that affected his growth.

The reasons for the emergence of mental superiority are due to genetic factors that contribute, as some scholars pointed out, to 80% of intelligence, while environmental factors do not exceed 20% only. How to translate the genetic predisposition to express the child's superior performance.

Characteristics and advantages of the superior

Recent studies conducted on excellence and the overachievers indicated that there are a number of characteristics that distinguish those who excel, and these characteristics are:

physical characteristics

Extensive studies conducted by psychologists on gifted children showed that they are distinguished from other peers by the fact that their level of physical development and general health is superior to others, as they are more energetic. .

mental characteristics

The most important characteristic that distinguishes the outstanding students from others is that their IQ is equivalent to the intelligence of those who are a year or more older than them, meaning that their mental development exceeds their chronological age, and that their mental abilities are higher than that of ordinary children. The ability to analyze and raise questions about the relationships between cause and effect, and thus solve the most difficult problems. You also find them retaining a large amount of information, the power of attention for a long time and the speed in learning basic skills. They are distinguished by vigilance, intelligence, strength of memory, and quick wit.

Emotional characteristics

Many studies have been conducted on the outstanding students to show their emotional characteristics, and the result in this study was that the outstanding students are emotionally stable and are less than others in terms of the incidence of mental disorders, non-nervousness, and they have a sense of humor, fun, and humor, this in case they are compared to their peers who are in similar age them.

social characteristics

The most important social characteristic of the outstanding students is leadership ability, in the sense that the gifted child is able to lead his peers in and out of school, and has extraordinary sensitivity to the feelings of others, as well as his ability to adapt when it comes to taking responsibility.