Weak Memory

Parents often feel that their children are underachieving in their studies due to weak memory. Weak memory involves inability of the children to follow teacher's instructions and remember things spoken in the classroom. However, this is usually caused by weak working memory, rather than low intelligence.

Working memory or short-term memory is responsible for holding and manipulating information, such as remembering and writing down verbally pronounced sentences, adding numbers without writing them down, and generally remembering things.

There can be underlying serious diseases in children with weak memory. Therefore, they must be identified as soon as possible in younger ages and properly treated, because it would be more difficult to cure such a condition in older ages.

• Children having weak memory find it difficult to follow teacher's instructions and remember things spoken in the classroom.
• These children are often wrongly considered as having low intelligence.
• The most common reason for weak memory is a problematic working memory.
• Working memory can be improved with therapy and counselling.
• The earlier these children are treated, the better the results can be.

Poor memory can occur for many different reasons. Some memory problems are serious, and others are not. Lack of concentration is the most common reason for poor memory among children. Lack of balanced and healthy diets is also responsible for weak memory.

Some of the serious reasons can be depression, anxiety, drug abuse, brain tumors, use of certain medications, or seizures. Other things may contribute to this too, like fatigue, mood-change, and physical disability.
 

Brain is the storehouse of memory. Thus, care should be taken so that your children avoid injuring the brain. Repeating the matter at home which they have studied or heard at school always reinforces retention. Ask children to associate the date or event with some catchy phrase or image. Our brain is excellent in associative recall. Let them learn just one new thing each day. Find something interesting to keep them motivated. Allow children to exercise their mind.

The kind of food children have, affects the working of their brain. Healthy brain food keeps their mental motor running, just as a healthy diet keeps the body going. According to Ayurveda, people have three basic body types (doshas) — vata, pitta and kapha. A child should take food according to his dosha to get best results.

Antioxidants are great memory boosters. Blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, raspberries, cherries, raisins, spinach, alfalfa sprouts, plums, broccoli, beets, oranges, red peppers, red grapes, etc. are loaded with antioxidants. Let them eat plenty of these daily. Eating 7-8 almonds daily can improve memory. Ask them to drink milk on a daily basis. A teaspoon of chyavanprash in the morning every day acts a good memory enhancer. Natural foods such as seeds and grains are good for brain and memory improvement.

In case you have tried all the above and you still have questions, you can contact Jiva. We provide consultations for this kind of problem. Do contact us at 0129-4294888 or write to us at asksteve@jiva.com. We will try our best to give a solution to your child’s problem with our expertise.

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