The human brain is 60% developed by the age of 3 and 90% developed by the age of 6. The right brain is mainly responsible for controlling the development of the senses and imagination. If you can consciously strengthen the development of your child’s right brain during early childhood, it can play a positive role in your child’s ability to innovate as an adult. Here are five new ways to teach moms and dads how to develop their children’s right brains: Matching games Children can play matching games when they are 1.5 years old: spread out a few letter cards and have them match 2 identical word cards. If the child confuses 2 different letters that are similar in appearance, the adult can point out the differences visually while correcting them. For example, when explaining the letter B you can depict it as one of the baby’s ears and explain the letter p as one of grandpa’s walking sticks. As children get older, gradually develop the matching game into a categorization game. For example, children around 2 weeks old can be asked to pair pictures of the same animal in different poses; children 2 ½ years old can be asked to categorize pictures or objects of fruits, cookies, etc. Stargazing Take your child to look up at the stars and tell him/her about myths and legends like “Cowherd and Weaving Maiden”, and ask him/her to open his/her imagination and weave his/her own stories about the moon or stars. Imagination itself is a kind of “right brain gymnastics”. Observe clouds On a clear day, take your child to observe the clouds in the sky and inspire them to see different shapes of clouds as animals, fairies, angels and so on. This is the easiest way to use nature to exercise children’s brains. Use the left side more Since the activities on the left side of the body are mainly directed by the right brain, using the left eye, right ear and left hand more often means exercising the right brain. You can let your child’s head turn to the right and train more “left vision”; listen to music or stories with headphones in your left ear; consciously use your left hand to hold things, wipe tables, open doors, turn on lights, etc. Cover most of the pictures of animals and plants that children are familiar with and ask them to guess what animal or plant it is. This helps improve young children’s ability to make inferences.