Developing Creativity

Don’t Read Your Child a Bedtime Story

Use Storytelling Tonight Books are wonderful tools that can lead our children on adventures, teach them moral lessons, and help them discover the complexities of their world. However, the art of storytelling is sometimes left by the wayside and our children then miss out on important academic and social developmental opportunities. Storytelling is a natural [...]

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Help Your Kids Build Skills, Confidence, and Character

Kids and hammers are almost a magical combination. There is a sparkle a boy gets in his eye when he holds a hammer, and that sparkle turns into a mesmerized fire when he also has a nail and something into which he can pound. For moms and dads everywhere, that fiery need to build can [...]

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Make Room for Your Child’s Imaginary Friend

The time we actually set the table for Oval and Charlie, the intriguing house guests who always graced our home alongside our 2 year-old son, I remember the look on my husband’s face. It clearly said, “Do you think it is time for them to leave?” He wasn’t being a rude host. He was [...]

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See The World From Your Child’s Eyes with Digital Photography

One of the best ways to see the world from your children’s eyes is to hand over the digital camera, or better yet, get them one of their own. Gone are the days when you have to guard the film camera with your life or else risk paying for developing 24 blurry pictures of the [...]

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Why Your Child Needs Art

What does the research show? Studies show there is one thing you can do for your children that will increase their overall brain functioning capabilities, improve cognitive and creative skills, raise their self-esteem levels, and set foundations for cooperative, balanced relationships. Sign them up for art class. Actually, the exposure to the arts does not [...]

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10 LEGO Projects That Will Inspire Your Child’s Creativity

We’ve all seen how LEGO can be made into anything – just go visit LEGOLAND. Entire replicas of famous places and famous people are made all the time (somebody even made Lego busts of Prince William and Kate Middleton for the royal wedding). Kids themselves make some wacky things out of LEGO – here are [...]

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Could “Improv” Hold The Key To Creativity In Children?

I was reading a fascinating article in Scientific American called, Inner Spark: Using Music To Study Creativity, that brought up a really interesting discovery. The article details Charles J. Limb, who is a hearing specialist at John Hopkins Medical Center, and his discovery of the different way the brain functions in people who are performing [...]

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3 Year Old Son Attempts To Make Hot Cocoa On Father’s Watch

This morning I had a little incident involving a candy cane, some cocoa, and a child who didn’t feel like waiting for me to make it for him that I just had to share with you. There I was with a cup of coffee, just sitting down in my Lazy-Boy recliner trying to wake up [...]

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How To Ruin Your Child’s Creativity

I was playing Legos the other day, with just one of those simple sets where you just try to put together a snowman that only has 12 pieces… and this kid I was working with was so afraid of putting a piece in the wrong place that as he’d go to put each piece in [...]

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Developing Inginuity – The Most Common Trait Of Wildly Successful People

Did you know what the worlds most successful people all have in common? They do not score higher on IQ tests, and they didn’t necessarily do well in school. The number one trait that successful people share is ingenuity… the ability to create new ideas. Wildly successful people do NOT do things the way everyone [...]

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