The 'Q's

There are so many 'Q's in this world. Often, parents stressed their children on IQ (Intelligence Quotient). IQ is a score derived from one of several different standardized tests designed to assess intelligence. It is known that IQ is important as it is the basic to success. Parents exposed their children and newborns to IQ lessons, even their unborn ones. Therefore, prenatal education become popular these days. Can you imagine that children started to learn when they are just as big as a pea?

Then, out of no way, came the EQ (Emotional Quotient). EQ is an ability, skill or a self-perceived ability to identify, assess and control the emotion of oneself or others. New research found that success = 20% IQ + 80% EQ. Parents become aware of EQ and started to send their children to EQ camp. I was a facilitator for an EQ camp for a few years. I met all kind of children and parents. Okay, I'll leave out the story here.

CQ (Creative Quotient) needless to say is all about creativity. Creativity plays an important part in our life. Being creative helps us to solve multiple problems in any situation.

So, in my mindset, IQ, EQ and CQ are important in educating myself and my children. I started to research on there 'Q's. To my surprise, there are so much more 'Q', there are SQ (Spiritual Quotient), HQ (Health Quotient), FQ (Financial Quotient) and so much more. But, I guess if I would have to catogerize them, it will still in the end goes back to the 3 main 'Q' (IQ, EQ, CQ).

At the beginning of the year 2011, I came across AQ (Adversity Quotient). With God's will, I'm lucky to attend a talk on AQ a few months ago. AQ is the most scientifically robust and widely used method in the world for measuring and strengthening human resilience. So, imagine that your children have IQ, EQ and CQ, meaning that he/she is successful but without the AQ, he/she won't be surviving. This means that AQ is as important as the 3 other 'Q's as AQ is all about how a person gets back on his/her feet after a setback or failure. Don't tell me that your children face no setback or failure before he/she successed.

In conclusion, these main 4 'Q's link. But, remember every children is different. They learn in their own pace. Most important is their interest. Children learn best through games.

Here, I would like to include a picture, can you think of which 'Q' we use to achieve this?? The answer is easy, right? :)