It's school break once again loves and of course, the kids are at home everyday these days either playing game consoles, watching their favorite TV show, drawing and painting, writing paragraphs (my 10 year old boy does that) or reading books.

My 10 year old son had a pretty good school year.  No failed grades and he even got an award for his excellence in basketball (He's part of his school's varsity team!).  For that we are already happy and proud parents.  Though he did well academically, I found out again in my second visit to BrainFit Studio Philippines, that he could still really improve.

Since my last visit in Brainfit Studio Greenhills last year, I stopped expecting too much and pressuring my son in giving us high grades because I realized it's also counter-effective.  We sometimes don't realize that our kids spend ten tiring "working" hours during school days.  Imagine they wake up at 5am, "work" in school the whole day, then do assignments at home pa.  They also get stressed.  If we stress them some more by pressuring them to give us high grades and get mad for not perfecting their scores, then we're not helping them develop at all.  Here's an idea of what brain parts are working in a simple writing activity of our child in school:
What will help them improve is learning at their own pace and  exercising all five (5) pillars which comprise key cognitive abilities that form the foundations for all learning.
The Brain Pillars are:

1. Attention & Memory
2. Sensory Motor Coordination
3. Auditory & Language Processing
4. Visual & Spatial Processing
5. Social-Emotional Self-regulation

“Each individual has a unique brain profile,” according to Ms. Cheryl Chia, Singapore-based clinical physiotherapist and founder of BrainFit Studio.  “We assess each brain’s strengths and weakness with a CognitiveMAP™, an evaluation tool that determines which of your child’s 5 Brain Pillars* need enhancement.”