Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, it's a show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge

skills, insight and encouragement you need to leverage and meaningful life now while building

a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less. My name is Josh Rashid, I'm your host,

today we continue our series on how to invest into your children, effectively at a very young age.

Today we're going to continue talking about how to make your children smarter. By way of review

very quickly in episode one, we talked about the importance of being careful who you choose to

mate with because the person that you choose to mate with is going to fundamentally drive the

genetic potential of your children. In episode two, we talked about the importance of ensuring a good

strong healthy pregnancy and a successful childbirth. In episode three, we talked about helping

your children to develop their bodies. You want to invest into helping your children develop

strong bodies, talked about nutrition, sleep, movement, sunshine, etc. In episode four of this series,

or part four of the series, we talked about giving your children words and background knowledge.

I explained that if you're going to invest into your children's minds, you begin with

physicality, right, making sure they have good nutrition, no toxins, lots of exercise, etc.

And then you need to start to build the mind. And when we think about making your children smarter,

there are two basic components of that. Literacy and numeracy are a useful outline for us to work from.

So we started by talking about the importance of giving your children words. And I focused heavily

in that episode on the importance of giving your children words at the earliest age. I explained how

if you want your baby to be smart, then you need to expose your baby to lots and lots of meaningful

words. And if at all possible, you want that vocabulary that your child is exposed to to be

extremely broad. You don't want to just work with a few thousand most common words. You want your

child to be exposed to tens of thousands of uncommon words. And that the more your child hears at

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