How Brain Gym Can Help You to be Smarter

My friend Mb Ummi is an interesting person. One day, when we ran out of ideas on what we should do with primary school students, she came with a brilliant idea. It was brain gym. We didn’t have any idea what it was, then she showed us a tabloid with an article on it to us. We were happy and agree to do that. Especially she mentioned that brain gym could enhance cognitive capacity of children, whereas four of us mostly had slowlearner students. We were excited and hoping that our students could be better and their IQ would be higher.

Then we told Bu Hapti about what we would do. She said that it would be ok. She smiled vaguely. When the brain gym was done (geez…never ever again do that…shout in front of hundreds of children in primary school telling them what to do…no way) we reported to Bu Hapti. She asked us,” Do you think your slowlearner students will be better after the brain gym?”

These excited girls answered at the same time,” Yes, hopefully.” We explained her why we did the brain gym, our students’ condition, the purpose of brain gym, how we did it, etc etc etc.

“Do you really believe after you teach them how to do that they would redo it again? And do you really believe that after brain gym session they would be smarter and not slowlearners anymore?” she smiled vaguely.

Then the girls burst laughter….even until now, we keep talking about it. How could we think those kids would be smarter by what so call brain gym?

Ssshhh it was called brain gym, but with body movement. So you don’t need your brain to work on it.