Developing brain capacity is like building muscle: the more you use it, the more you improve. The same goes for memory training.

In this age of information explosion, it helps to start memory training from an early age and prepare your children to tackle the tasks ahead with improved performance. Although life is more hectic these days, the brain is such a powerful machine that it can definitely keep up; the secret is to pay attention.

Teach your children to focus, not only on the information they need to remember, but to always do homework with some thought. This avoids unnecessary memory leaks. Help them develop their brain power by following this step-by-step guide.

1. Repeat, repeat, repeat. Children are sometimes easily forgotten because the things they do at a young age are often routine, which can be classified as meaningless chores. Help them store routine activity in their brain memory by saying it out loud as they do it. This also helps limit distraction. Applied to introductions, if you can’t repeat it during the conversation, do the repeat while walking away.

2. Try chunking. Ever notice how we recite the phone number in chunks? Instead of saying 2, 3, 7, 0, 4, 9, 0, we say 23, 70, 490. This is because the brain can process so much information at once that it is certainly not a problem to put parts together. Teach your children this strategy to help them better remember more information.

3. Get meaning. One of the reasons children, or people in general, forget is that the information they are trying to memorize means nothing to them. So help your kids develop brain power and avoid this trap by giving meaning to words. Instead of memorizing a random list, try to find some order and create meaning through mnemonics.