Children are under a lot of pressure. You've probably recognize how much information your child, from Elementary through College, has to memorize and are accountable for on tests. There are things we've learned from neuroscience, about how memory is preserved that we can help to use our child memorize. For example, the word neuroplasticity -- you've probably heard that word a lot -- and that is, simply a matter of what happens when information is repeated in the brain. So when -you brain learns something or hears a fact -- Sacramento is the capital of California -- even when the brain first hears it, there's a couple of little dendrites and axons that connect a few neurons together. Now, is that going to stay in long-term memory? Not a chance. What needs to happen is the information needs to be repeated in the brain. Electricity needs to go through that circuit over and over for more connections to form, more dendrites, more axons, more myelons. That is the whole neuroplasticity process. That's how we develop long-term memory. In order to help a child build long-term memory, they need to mentally manipulate. They need to use it back. Asking them, "What does it mean to you?" or "Why would the state capital be here in our city, instead of Los Angeles?" Those questions make them use that information, along with the information in the brain; so that little isolated memory in the brain, links to some bigger network. That's a key to making new information stick. Link it to something that is already there.