There are plenty of messages out today there that influence our perception of how best to bring up and communicate to our children.
 
Which one of those should we listen to?  Maketing gurus, entrepreneurs, and  the auntie-next-door can all sound extremely convincing when they dish out advice on parenting.  Here's our KiasuParents' Guide to science, theories, myths and conventional wisdom on parenting.

With the vast amount to information that a child need to read, they will have a competitive advantage if they are able to speed read without losing the meaning of the material.
A normal person read around 125 words per minute, a speed reader can easily read 500 - 1000 words per minute.

Reading is a process of converting words into its corresponding meaning. The problem with reading is that most of us are trained from young to read at the speed of our speech, which greatly reduce our redeading speed. Our brain can process words at a faster speed than our speech, this is where most speed reading techniques come into play.

The reading process is usually as follows:
words (visually)->words (verbally)->meaning

A simple way to remember an ordered list is to create a mental image of the number and create an image of the item with the mental image of the number.

First you need to associate the number with an image. You can choose similar sounding words, objects with a similar shape as the number, or any thing you might associate the number with.

 In his book “How to give your baby encyclopedic knowledge”, Glen Doman advocate organizing flash cards into 10 divisions followed by Category. Instead of merely showing the child Category of information such as animals, insects, etc. He reason that by giving your  child 10 related facts, you can give your child “3628,000 connections in his knowledge bank.” 

This set consist of 10 cards to be used when showing your child knowledge belonging to different areas. I have made some changes to Glen Doman’s original divisions.  Here are the 10 divisions and suggested categories of information.

This set covers 8 geometrical shapes and introduce the concept of organic  shapes and shapes with metaphorical names.

11 types of flowers were shown in this set of flash cards. Flowers that can be commonly seen around Singapore or appear frequently in popular culture or literature are choosen for this set.  

Flowers in this set includes: Bougainvillea, Chrysanthemum, Lotus, Orchid, Rose, Sunflowers.