Most parents want their children to be obedient, considerate, intelligent, and enjoyable; they want the best for them and, to achieve this, they work hours and hours and suffer setbacks; many also want to stimulate creativity in children. a magic wand!
On this last topic, how can we stimulate creativity in children?
- There are several different strategies for doing this.
- They are all logical.
- Consistent and effective.
- However.
- Your app requires parents or guardians to be active and involved.
- Away from those famous phrases like “I want to be silent” or?I don’t have time for your stories right now.
If you want your children to be creative, even if they are part of an educational system that tends to be homogeneous (Ferroniz, 2011), you must make an effort to break the inertia.
English lessons, swimming, math, football, chess, writing . . . the range of activities for children is huge, we can say that they are privileged because they no longer need to live in a big city to find activities that interest them.
The threat of a highly competitive adult world is driving many parents to make a financial effort to make sure their children receive additional training.
However, this change of address comes at a price. Children don’t get bored, so they don’t need to invent games or try to turn a low-stimulation environment into an environment where they can have fun, because creativity starts with misdeeds, games and time control. It’s very hard to achieve, when they don’t have free time.
Thus, the first strategy to incentivize their creativity is to give them time and space to make decisions without having to respond to external demands. Otherwise, divergent thinking without achieving autonomy doesn’t make much sense; Creativity increases when used to solve real problems.
It is true that children can also develop their creativity in specific activities, this happens mainly when there is intelligent regulation of challenges, let’s look at two types of interesting challenges:
The first group consists of challenges that the child can face on their own effortlessly, in this situation adults can help with words of encouragement, face a parallel challenge and avoid the temptation to help them. Children are capable and able to overcome, challenges will strengthen their confidence.
The second is the challenges for which the child needs a little help. You may not know how to count or understand the meaning of a word, and the library is too far away to do it alone.
In such cases, the temptation of many parents is to take control. Parents can help children calculate, but they have to solve the problem. They can search for a word in the dictionary, but they must answer questions about the story. You can go with them, but you must follow the path you have already learned.
Many parents love that their children publicly present the skills they have just learned, however, in many cases, the child does not want their skills to be tested in an environment where they feel valued and insecure, this can cause them to fail, it can cause their anxiety to appear. and make her not want to continue.
On the other hand, social environments are also a good place to develop creativity, in which there are unforeseen natural changes to which children must react.
Therefore, it is important that technology is not available to them at this time and at other times, it is about facing reality challenges posed by others and not playing on a screen.
Creativity has several components: the person, the process, the product, and the environment. Kaufman and Sternberg (2007) call it the “Four P?S. (Person, Process, Product and Press)”.