How to Increase Intelligence in Children

"I would be willing to place my money on the idea that a lot of what I've talked about in my series on intelligence for children is a good idea," he says. "We know that at least American children that I know, we know that they're fat and sedentary their brains don't work very much." The amount of reading that kids do is substantially diminished; literacy is down dramatically as are numeracy scores from general U.S. public school students. He also talks about how language needs to be absorbed over a long period of time with lots of strenuous use.