Besides being an awesome place to find cool and unique products for ever-growing minds, WonderBrains has embraced a learning philosophy unlike most others.  Products at WonderBrains are centered around an educational idea called Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences.  Peter, one of the co-creators of WonderBrains, has a wonderful article on the site that explains in depth what Gardner’s theory is all about.

I recently attended a teacher training session specifically geared to enlightening early childhood teachers in this theory.  While most of us associate intelligence with either verbal, mathematical or logical astuteness, there are other categories to consider.  While many of these are difficult, if not impossible to measure in the “standard” sense, they are valid areas of intelligence.  Read through a few of these, and see if you can identify any of these areas in your child or even yourself.

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