November 25, 2007

Adventures With Dollhouses

When it comes to imagination, there are no right or wrong answers for the most part. Encouraging imagination in children is a vital component to their development and parents play an important role in determining that imagination by encouraging it. When parents do not encourage imagination in their children, they run the risk of hampering the development of many important mental capacities that children develop through the experience of play.
Allowing children to have adventures in their own minds using creative tools, such as dollhouses or other miniature worlds, is an important piece of the child raising puzzle. It is important to encourage children to use their minds in play situations, as this encourages the emergence of rules, regulations, creative thinking, and problem solving. Far too often, children lack those skills upon entering the most basic of life situations because of the parent0s desire to have their children become in touch with 0reality0 as early as possible. This is often referred to as 0tough love0 and is certainly not suitable for young children.
There are many practices that discourage the use of children0s imagination and abstract skills.
Television and Computers
Too often in the modern world, it is common to have passive parenting skills […]

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