The ability to create has one of the highest values in our society. Having the space and opportunity to be creative can be one of life’s most satisfying experiences. Children are born to be creative and resourceful. Unfortunately, as they get older, more and more rules are imposed on them, and some students gradually lose their creative edge or channel their creativity into non-learning activities.
When you know how to nurture your child’s creativity, their learning will flourish. One of my daughters doesn’t like math as much as other subjects, but she likes to make up stories. So I started encouraging her to make up stories that involved numbers. She started writing word problems. Then I would ask him if the problem in his story made sense. To prove that her problem made sense, she would have to solve it herself.
He happily and willingly went through the routine of adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing to solve his word problem.
This same daughter is not so confident in her ability to draw, but she likes to write stories. So I encouraged her to illustrate the characters in her stories, which gave her ample opportunities to practice her drawing skills. He now illustrates many of the characters he creates, and his drawing skills have improved dramatically.
My oldest daughter is not as interested today as I would like. However, he loves to design his newspapers. I use your enthusiasm for making newspapers to introduce you to what is happening in our world today. For national and world news, I invite you to read the internet news with me and explain and discuss what is happening. She has become increasingly interested in current events and is writing news in her newspaper to reflect what she has read online with me.
When your child expresses enthusiasm in creating a small item such as a bookmark, making a small bag with quilt patches, making a quiz game, or creating a workbook for their younger siblings, please encourage, appreciate, and praise their creativity. .
I have always encouraged my children to use their creativity to learn new things, to reflect what they have acquired, and to discover and explore new territories in this vast sea of knowledge.
When your child’s creativity is nurtured and fostered, they associate the positive and powerful experience of learning with creativity, which will benefit them for the rest of their lives.