BlastingMy Kid's Math Skills

I happen to have a kid, a fourth grader as of this writer, who like most kids his age are so into computer games. This, he does daily to the detriment of his school work. He'd rather click away on a desktop than do his homework.

Of course, no father would want such a condition to go on unchecked. My immediate reaction was to find some way to integrate computer games and schoolwork together. I found one such solution which I blogged about (Math Blaster) in my other blog. Check it out to know more.

What is Brainwave Entrainment?

What is Brainwave Entrainment? Well, at least from the readings that I've done lately, it has something to do with our brainwave frequencies tending to follow a current dominant frequency. From this brainwave entrainment website, a process called frequency following response is something our brain normally do when it is exposed to sounds, sights, or kinesthetics, that are repetitive and regular and with considerable duration.

Actually, I have also dabbled in this a few years back. I used to be a member of a yahoo group called bwgen. I dropped off the group after it was hopelessly infested with spammers. I used a shareware called bwgen which is a software that can generate binaural tones that are then used for brainwave entrainment. In fact, in the bwgen site's library, I have submitted a preset called 'deep bubble 1' (an improved version of my first submission 'deep bubble'). Well, I've had nice experiences in brainwave entrainment using that preset before my interest in brainwave thingies faded out after sometime. Now, I guess I have a mind to go back to it and tinker with it again. It's a helper tool after all to meditation.

I'll post sometime soon more on this topic particularly on isochronic beats and its benefits.