Education is the one of the most important steps of development. However, it seems strange that such weight and pressure is pressed into just one form of growth. Creativity is just as critical as a formal education.
Although we want our children to know their presidents and how to multiply fractions, we also want our children to understand their potential to go beyond what is already being done or what might already be known. We want our children to improve the world; make it bigger and better than it is now.
The simplest and funnest way to get the ball rolling on creativity is to begin reading with your child. Allowing them to create stories along side a book is the best way to get them creating stories on their own. From picture books to novels, all types of recreational reading requires our brain to take control of any details that help the story to keep going.
Each child sees each book differently, and once they have gotten a grip on how to read creatively then the possibilities are endless.
Little Fun Club has found a wonderful new book to help you start this journey. Not a Box by Antoinette Portis is a New York Public Library’s “One Hundred Titles for Read” Winner, ALA Notable Children’s Book Winner, Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book Winner and will soon be featured in Little Fun Box subscription boxes. The story discusses how imagination can make anything out of nothing and how pretend can become reality.
Sometimes just knowing that breaking the mold isn’t a bad thing, is the best lesson your child can learn to grow.
For more information on the importance of creativity, check out this TED Talk by Ken Robinson on “How schools kill creativity”:
