Simple, be creative yourself. You provide the environment,
role modeling, opportunities and inspiration for creativity.
1. Live
a creative life yourself. Read, do art, make crafts, schedule screen time,
makeup stories, be creative with your clothes, create beautiful meals, and have
fun with your children.
2. Feed
your imagination. Rearrange your living spaces, invent new crafts, have new
experiences and involve your children in all the above.
3. Play.
Limit, through scheduling, screen time (t.v., gaming, internet etc.), and play
board games, makeup new games, make chores into games and embrace messiness.
4. Be
open-minded. Take adventures with your children, try learning a new language,
try on new ideas and beliefs.
5. Don’t
criticize yourself in front of your child for making mistakes, being the wrong
size, or not being good enough.
If you live a creative life, so will your child. You are the
number one factor in helping your child grow and nurture their creative mind.
Research shows that children lose their flexibility, creativity and uniqueness
as they age. By the time they reach adolescence, their thinking becomes more
structured and fixed. But if children are raised with having parents who have
encouraged them to risk and not be afraid of making mistakes, and have instilled
an early love for stories, art, theatre, and dance then chances are those
children will be highly creative. Children who grow up watching their parents
fix things will have confidence to try fixing things themselves. They will
believe that they can creative problem solve and be “handy”. Creativity comes
from trying, learning, and being motivated to study, make and do. Creative
children have valuable skills for life because they trust themselves to be
capable.
1 comment:
Excellent post with great points made here. The fact that we can lose so much of our creative thinking by adolescence is very sad indeed, so it makes me cherish my creative skills all the more and inspires me to share my creativity with others so they can begin to carry the Creativity Torch and continue to spread it around! =-)
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