Some children are naturally born creative. Some are not. But that’s not to say that creativity cannot be developed or Edward De Bono would be out of business. If you were to give some children some generic toys such as building blocks, or semi-circular donut rings or octagonal building puzzles, some kids would only build buildings, donuts or rows/towers. Yet some kids, the ones who are naturally creative, will build dinosaurs and airports and flowers and giraffes and tractors and what have you, the world is really at their fingertips. Never mind if the dinosaur looks like a car, never mind that the cat looks like a pizza; the important thing is that your child’s top right brain is working.
And please, never say when your child tells you that this is his fart, “Oh! But it looks like a building!”
Say, “What an amazing fart you’ve built! I never knew fart looked like that!”
When you give a child some Lego that comes in a boat box, depending on their age, your child will immediately follow the picture or instructions to build the Lego boat, but if your child were naturally creative, he would take it apart to build something else, OR metamorphosize his boat into a torpedo land boat that ejaculates strawberries when hungry. A doll’s house doesn’t have to be JUST a doll house, your creative child would make it an army defense zone or use it as storage for his special notes.
When you do have younger children, there is a tendency to ‘teach’ the child how to play a given toy. NEVER DO THAT. Children INSTINCTIVELY know how to play. Adults have a tendency to ‘teach’ young children what the real world looks like, feels like, is. But by doing that, we immediately kill any chance of creative development. For example, if a child built a car and it had only 3 wheels, and the adult ‘corrects’ the child by adding on the 4th wheel then reinforces the idea that cars are supposed to have 4 wheels, not 3. The adult is in effect inhibiting the child’s natural creative juice. Who says a car can’t have 3 wheels??? How do you know that your child wouldn’t be THE pioneer in inventing the first car with 3 wheels??
Even when it comes to drawing, allow your child to draw square clouds and purple people. That is HIS interpretation of the world. Leave him to it. It could be his dream and who are we to quell that dream? That dream that could really one day turn into reality. Yes, we could and would really have a pink sea one day!
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good post! yes, RL’s arts are full of pink clouds, seas and skies…i just tease her about it coz that’s her favourite colour.
i’m just wondering, this is just a thought that has been lingering for a while, what if we allow the child to continue believing that he/she can fly, will we also create that false sense of hope in them? or let them learn themselves when reality bites them?
Thanks for this post! I have a little artist at home who can draw like anything – I stink at art so have little idea how to guide him.
Will you hop over to my blog to check out his creativity when I have time to post his art work??? Would love your feedback.