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That is why many countries are betting on home schooling, as well as on flexible learning programs, adapted to the educational needs of our children and that can even be managed by the students themselves in learning autonomy. Today, learning communities are being created all over the planet to tell the old educational systems that they must transform and adapt to the future of education. An important point of this adaptation is the development of creativity, this capacity implies the task of inventing, this activity is superior to just imagining and therefore we must point it out. There are those who think that creating is synonymous with imagining and although it is a part of the process it is completed when inventing and transforming, that is where the ability to create arises.
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In learning creative ability, we must rely on the education of our brain by creating habits that lead to problem solving. From this point of view, the creative capacity is extremely valuable for life. A person who has a well-developed creative capacity is a person capable of facing any difficulty that comes his way and especially will always be able to see solutions and opportunities before problems and difficulties. That is why it is essential for our children to develop their creative capacity.
Some strategies with which we can generate a learning of the creative capacity are:
1.- Provide creative resources: It is especially important for the youngest children to have a space where they have toys, paints, colors, paper and everything they can use to express themselves freely. As parents we can spend a couple of hours a day in our creative space where we will allow the children to do whatever they want with those resources they have there.
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2.- Teaching patience and perseverance: One of the big problems of today's generations is that they lack patience, they get frustrated and abandon every project easily. The creative capacity implies having patience until we achieve what we want, inventing something new takes time and we must teach that to our children as parents.
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3.- Problematize the environment: A very important aspect is that as parents, in most cases, we try to make our children have an easy life, in the sense that we do everything for them and we do not allow them to solve the small problems of daily life that later, as adults, become what my parents "did not let me do" and they end up blaming us for their failures. That is why one strategy is to create small problems that awaken their creative capacity. A good exercise is to help us decide what we are going to cook by placing some elements on the table and indicating that this is all we have, this allows the child to solve a problem through creativity.
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4.- Give them the opportunity to choose and respect their ideas: It is very important that our children have their own criteria, by giving them the opportunity to choose we must guide them in the criteria about the choice we are going to make. To do this, we make a list of the pros and cons that each option has and at the end a reflection about the reason for that choice. This is how we show them that they can develop their own criteria and position about what affects their life.
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5.- Allow your children to do things their own way: I know this point is one of the most difficult for all parents. Because we all try at some point to get our children to do everything the same way we do. However, we must remember that they are totally different beings and that they have their own way of doing and solving problems. We are only there to guide them, not to direct their actions.
Learning the creative capacity implies an open-mindedness first of ourselves as parents and guardians and then of the children. It is about giving them the opportunity to invent and grow from their own intelligence based on their abilities and attitudes. I hope you find this article useful and don't forget to leave your comments, I would like to know if you apply any strategy for the development of the creative capacity?
