Playfulness and creativity

Hey there. So speaking of playfulness and creativity, I personally believe that it is something that starts from young. It may or may not be taught to a certain extent.

When young, parents tend to buy building blocks and puzzle games and coloring books to develop and stimulate their brains to think and be creative. In this era, many children are seen with big iPads and phones (some even bigger than mine, how funny) to ensure their kids keep quiet in public or so that they do not disturb while elders are talking. I, strongly go against that mentality because children need to learn hands on from young. Imagine your kids growing up and not knowing how to use  pencil and draw. Scary!

When kids are given the freedom of toys and puzzles and games, they tend to think more and how to solve and how to play around with what they have. Yes at times it seems like the easiest way out to hand a child a phone and watch videos so they keep quiet but back in the olden days, there were no such technologies and parents still manage to keep their child disciplined. Why not now? Playfulness is a necessity (in my opinion) for the growing child. They should be given the freedom to do what they want (to a certain extent of course), to learn how to be creative with their toys, their coloring books, their surroundings even.

Playfulness and creativity definitely can be taught from a young age and it also depends on the upbringing of the child. The fact that technology has taken over this (maybe eighty percent) generation is quite a sad thing to see but I hope that there are parents out there who still believe in "old school" teachings for their children to develop creativity on their own and to play around with soft toys and building blocks and puzzles and such.

I'd definitely want that for my children.

- The other two parts to this topic can be found on Lulu's and Hafizah's blogs cause this is a group work and we decided to split it into three parts for better understanding. Till then

Shahirshaj-