There is a great way for you to influence your child’s intelligence to help him excel later in life. Teach him healthy sleep patterns while he is a baby. This is one of the best ways to influence your child’s intelligence.

The author of Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, Dr. Marc Weissbluth, uses the research of Dr. Lewis M. Terman in his study. Although Dr. Terman’s research was completed in 1925, it is still widely quoted and used today. Dr. Terman used the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test to test over 3,000 children. In the children who were found to have superior intelligence there was one thing in common. They all had healthy sleep patterns at night.

Tiredness can cause your child to experience colic-like symptoms, crankiness, irritability, fussiness, hypertension, and poor focusing and eating habits. Some studies even suggest that there is a link between fatigue and the increasing diagnosis rate of ADHD. » Read The Rest