Let the children play!

Dear Joshua

Daddy loves it when you are having so much fun. I am blessed as daddy thinks its great for us to be crazy and be ourselves...

Daddy love to read on how to develop children's creativity. In one of his textbooks (Runco, 2007), a longitudinal research done to study parent's personality traits related to a child's creative potential.

Runco and Albert (1985) looked specifically at the relationship between parental
independence and the creativity of the children. Here independence
was defined as an attitude, and parents actually rated how much indepence was
appropriate for children in various situations.... Parental appreciation for the
autonomy of their children is related to the actual independence of the
children and to the creative and divergent thinking skills of the
children. The highly original children have parents who allow independence at an early age. Recall that independence is one of the most important traits of creativity in the personality research. Independence may take
many forms, including a tolerance of unconventional ideas and a tolerance of
seemingly unrealistic perceptions. I am referring here to the imaginary
friends and worlds that creative children sometimes construct. These may
challenge a parent, for they are unrealistic. (p. 56)

What does that say to us? In daddy's humble opinion, a child's creativity is unbounded when we let them be free with their imagination and appreicate them for how they may choose to express their own creativity. In that way a child at a young age learns to open see their world and construct what is creative to themelves.

Children have a right to PLAY ;~) Dance on Joshua!

References:

Runco, M. A. (2007). Creativity-Theories and themes: Research, development, and practice. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Runco, M. A., & Albert, R. S. (1985). The reliability and validity of ideational originality in the divergent thinking of academically gifted and nongifted children. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 45, 483-501.