Parents’ and Teachers’ Role in Enhancing a Child’s Cognitive Development for Sound Education in the Digital Era

The digital era has transformed learning, exposing children to vast information while also threatening cognitive skills like attention, critical thinking, and problem-solving. The enhancement of a child’s cognitive holds the key to the child’s future. Today a good parent and teacher want their children to succeed in school and thrive intellectually. They struggle to achieve and maintain the strong family structure that can withstand negative pressures so prevalent in our society, therefore, the importance of early enrichment activities that can help parents gain the skills that are so important to their child’s future success cannot be overemphasized. Research has shown that a child’s early life experiences and environmental surroundings are closely linked to cognitive enhancement and the foundation for future development. It is known that parents create the first learning environment for their children, and the parents are their child’s first teachers. This Paper therefore seek to unravel what the parents and teachers should know and do to help this young school child enrich their brain through providing information and services that will aid in the children’s physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development, in order to improve their learning and educational achievement. This could be realized through proper nutrition, good health condition, good exercises, and acquisition of language. A child should be assisted early enough in the cognitive enrichment activities for better performance that will leads to sustainable development.