Child’s Creativity: Make an Environment That Encourages Creative Thinking and Personal Development
From the day we started school, we have been programmed think inside the box. It starts with the obvious; Johnny, I like the use of color but a cow isn’t green. Or, even more subtly with, Suzie, what is that? Oh…okay…um nice job.
At home we continue to reinforce the thinking inside the box mentality. We tell our children that anything is possible. But, do we really believe it. We all see the lives of kids where the parents are fully behind the child’s passion. What do we say? They are crazy, Billy isn’t talented and smart enough to ever become an astronaut. What are his parents thinking, sending him to summer camps, extra curricular science classes and, encouraging him to become a fighter pilot. Are they nuts. They don’t get it, Billy isn’t the sharpest pencil in the drawer.
