Apr 5, 2009

Visual Imagination

Children can see complex things in simple stuff. It is for us parents to understand, appreciate and encourage more such creative thinking.
While it is easier for us to just focus on the obvious, for example, tell her these are three balloons (see video below), by appreciating her ability to see a 'choo choo train', opens up possibilities to increase imagination, by seeing similar other objects in day-to-day life.
As Freud says that 'poetic imagination is a form of substitution and can be seen in the play of childhood. Fantasy is playfulness. Fantasy is the adult's potential for play. It involves a flight from reality'.

Let us all transcend into the world of fantasy and imagination and see the wonders out there, thereby encouraging our little ones to think alike.

2 comments:

Merryn said...

u r so smart to place the (was that a comforter) on the floor in order for the balloon to stay in place.. coz i know the balloons will not stay on tiled floor! but she is so smart to easily arranged the balloons in straight lines! :)

Yaggya said...

Merryn, Wow, You have an eye for details. :)