Helping our kids to become better at sports and music or exploring their imagination is a fantastic part of parenting. Yet we can also help to improve our kids understanding of the world by taking them to museums and introducing extra homework. Conducting extra homework can sometimes help improve kids intelligence, yet what it can nearly always do is improve a kids ability to work harder. Just like warming up and push-ups do not improve a person's ability to play sports; they will improve a person's physical fitness to play those sports more competitively. Extract. Putting it plainly, those who work harder gain more rewards. Hard work improves luck and opportunity, as well as enhancing the learning, development and application of skills. This is a collection of four groups of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) family study activities seeking to encourage knowledge by helping family members study harder.