The Huffington Post – Laurie Hollman, Ph.D.
“When kids go to school they mostly focus on structured activities tailored to teach them reading, writing, and math along with some science and history. Clearly this is important for their future learning and giving them a well-rounded education. However, it leaves opportunities for creativity to…parents like ourselves who realize the potential for learning it gives…Your encouragement and engagement with your kids about creative exploits furthers their ability to think in these expansive ways. They become explorers, adventurers, artists, writers, expanding their thinking capacities over and over. The more they do these kinds of things, the more they think and reflect along these lines always learning, always stretching their imaginations…if we know the importance of encouraging our children’s imagination, we can provide these opportunities for learning and immense growth.”(more)