YOUR CHILD IS MORE CREATIVE THAN YOU!
Believe it or not! It is true.
You call a spade, a spade! Your child doesn’t. She will dig out ten different things that a spade can do besides what it is known to do.
She does not have any predisposed judgments about things. She does not analyze. She does not search for logic. She does not look for the output. She just thinks the way she wants to think.
We need to think like a child and reverse the assumptions that are taken for granted.
“If my child sits facing the rear of her car, why do we assume that she is the one who is backwards, and not the car itself?”
A child questions things that we don’t. A child looks at things differently.
A ball has rolled out of your child’s reach while she was playing on the bed.
What will you do? You will reach for the ball. Right?
What will your child do? She will just pull the bedcover so it comes closer to her.
We need to accept unusual ideas from children by suspending judgment of children's divergent problem-solving.
Instead of nipping the creative bud right in the beginning by snapping at her, you can can accept it and encourage it to keep the spirit of thinking differently alive in your child (if possible).
Sure, it will need a little more understanding, a little more clearing of mess ups, a little more curbing your urge to smack her on the back and tell her to follow the ordinary norms that you are used to. But, that also doesn't mean letting her do whatever she pleases creating havoc in the house. A balance between the two; by giving her freedom to explore and experiment at times and setting the rules for other times, is what I find is ideal for both the parent and the child.
Gradually, you can extend this creative problem-solving bent of mind to various problems that naturally occur in everyday life.
Have you or your child solved any problems that occured in your day-to-day life creatively? Do you think disorder breeds creativity?
Believe it or not! It is true.
You call a spade, a spade! Your child doesn’t. She will dig out ten different things that a spade can do besides what it is known to do.
She does not have any predisposed judgments about things. She does not analyze. She does not search for logic. She does not look for the output. She just thinks the way she wants to think.
We need to think like a child and reverse the assumptions that are taken for granted.
“If my child sits facing the rear of her car, why do we assume that she is the one who is backwards, and not the car itself?”
A child questions things that we don’t. A child looks at things differently.
A ball has rolled out of your child’s reach while she was playing on the bed.
What will you do? You will reach for the ball. Right?
What will your child do? She will just pull the bedcover so it comes closer to her.
We need to accept unusual ideas from children by suspending judgment of children's divergent problem-solving.
Instead of nipping the creative bud right in the beginning by snapping at her, you can can accept it and encourage it to keep the spirit of thinking differently alive in your child (if possible).
Sure, it will need a little more understanding, a little more clearing of mess ups, a little more curbing your urge to smack her on the back and tell her to follow the ordinary norms that you are used to. But, that also doesn't mean letting her do whatever she pleases creating havoc in the house. A balance between the two; by giving her freedom to explore and experiment at times and setting the rules for other times, is what I find is ideal for both the parent and the child.
Gradually, you can extend this creative problem-solving bent of mind to various problems that naturally occur in everyday life.
Have you or your child solved any problems that occured in your day-to-day life creatively? Do you think disorder breeds creativity?
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