Your child’s imagination is a key to success!
Guess what is on picture?:)
It’s a eggplant (when you’ll be trying to find it look at chestnut) and penguin eggs (nuts). From the penguin eggs very soon we’ll have little penguins. They will play with Sofia.:)
Even all researches from the whole world won’t tell everything about children’s imagination. The reason is very simple. All that researches are written by adults. Authors think like adults analyzing some facts, they have logic of adults, but we all know that children have a few in common with logic. They use intuition instead.
Watching how my little Sofia is playing I realized how much I forgot since I was her age. Sometimes I recollect some facts and details but they are a little bit misty and I’m sure they are just small part of that special reality of childhood which we often miss in spite of pleasures of being adult and do what even we want. I’m so grateful that my daughter made me to remember all kind of those things. I love to remember them even if they are only small part.
Do our children really need to develop imagination? I do think so.
Here are some future bonuses that come from developing the imagination:
- Imagination helps children solve problems by having experience in imaginary difficult situations and be ready for something new that sometimes may scare them.
- Imagination allows children to train themself for adult life. Shopping at a pretend grocery store to speaking to dolls or puppets, help better understand how those skills are used in the real world.
- Imagination encourages a rich vocabulary. Retelling real or just made-up stories, reading books and pretend play help children learn new words.
- Imagination makes your children become creative thinkers. They will be innovators, not only simple consumers.
But we should always remember that though all children have a lot in common , they are all individuals formed by very different circumstances. So, let’s be more attentive to our children and own intuition, though some tips may be helpful.