Introduce your kid with the timeless game of scrabble. Get your wife/husband to play also with you so that your child will be encourage to create words of his own. Get a dictionary so that he/she wont rely on the internet to look for words. In this way you help your child develop his english comprehension at an early age.
Chess would not be a boring game for your kid if you let him win or lose once in a while. In this way, he/she will find ways to beat you. This will develop deep thinking abilities and eventually gain more self confidence.
Give your child a Rubik's Cube as a toy whenever he/she's done with the other toys. This toy will increase your child's 3 dimentional imagination. Challenge him/her that you can finish the game in this amount of time.
It is a great indoor game. Table tennis creates hands and feet coordination for your kid. The eye spots a high speed ball from the opponent which tells your brain to act quickly to strike back at the ball. Chinese are good table tennis players and they are also good in mathematics. Coincidence?
If you know how to play an instrument, teach your kid how to play at an early age. Playing an instrument improves their listening abilities and boost their self confidence among other benefits they could get.
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