Did you catch the great article on the creativity crisis in Newsweek last July? If you didn’t, here is a link . Basically it concluded that our children are less creative now than they were in 1990 and it talks about the importance of creativity and flexibility in our lives both as children and as successful adults.
Now I just found a great article on the importance of play based education entitled Want to get your kids into college? Let them play!
I link these articles together because I think it is crucial as parents that we find ways to be creative and “silly” with our children. We are our their first teachers and if they see us playing then they won’t stop playing as they grow older.
Playing with words, melodies, stories…it all keeps us flexible in our thinking and in our problem solving. Playing with our children, singing with our children, making up silly rhymes and acting out new stories, all of these activities are to be honored. The work of childhood is not learning to read, it is learning to be human and that is not something we can get from a flashcard.
‘nuf said. Go play!
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