The creative genius of children: experience imagining
The imagination It is a human faculty that we began to exercise since we are very young, and it is at the age of 3-6 years when it gives children much more possibilities. creative and unexpected, that do not follow the logic of adults. Encourage the creative genius of children is possible, as long as we motivate them to experience imagining.
The fantasy it takes its components from internal and external reality, and transforms it creating a different reality. With his imagination, the child invents new characters and games, as well as original stories. Parents can take advantage of the creativity of our children, helping them to develop it and putting a channel so that it does not overflow.
Fantasy has always been very present in literature, cinema and various works of art. If we stop to think, there are many titles that come to mind with fantasy as background, from the recent adventures of Harry Potter to the mythological stories of centuries ago.
The creative genius: experience imagining
The process of growing and maturing It is not easy for a child. Little by little he has to face the world, he has to relate to others ... For all that, children need an inner world that offers them protection and that becomes their refuge.
When the child plays with the imagination, it becomes the almighty person that is not in reality. Invent and transform, for example, a broomstick on a racehorse. Fantasy is for him a way of learning and with his imagination he creates situations and places himself inside them, like a simulation game. For the girl and the boy, es the way to live a rich variety of experiencesYou can become a mom, a salesgirl, a teacher or a warrior.
Our son not only transforms one object into another, but he is capable of transforming himself; You can change your identity from one moment to another, moving from fiction to reality as many times as you need to. And it will look for accomplices that participate with him in the fantastic game.
Geniuses and creatives: children with fantasy and imagination
It is convenient that the children use that capacity of fantasy, that they play a lot, that they invent, paint, disguise, talk, etc. Probably, in the future they will be much more creative people.
The use of fantasy has many advantages for the child, in addition to the function it fulfills in its natural development and in its maturation:
- Fantasy favors creativity, imagination and sensitivity. At these ages, he will surprise us with his reasonings and curious outings, because he is naturally predisposed to it.
- Fantasy facilitates your ability to entertain yourself and not get bored. You can invent a thousand ways to play, without the need for television sets, video games, etc.
- Fantasy favors your intelligence, because it is a full-fledged intellectual exercise.
Fantastic parents
But we also have to monitor and intervene at the right time, so that they can separate their rational thinking from their imagination and assimilate reality as it is.
It is proper in these ages that children enjoy building their world, checking how they can modify reality according to their wishes; it's about incredible stories of impossible facts with fantastic characters.
The favorite and most intense occupation of the child is the game and places the things of his world in a new order, which is more pleasing to him. The antithesis of the game is reality. And although the child distinguishes the reality of the world and its game very well, he likes to support objects and circumstances that he imagines in tangible and visible objects of the real world. This is the difference between the child's 'play' of 'fantasizing'.
Our role as parents will consist ofhelp them differentiate reality from what only exists in their head, something fundamental so that they can mature. But we will only distinguish these two worlds when necessary; We must not be too hurried, since it is not bad that from time to time they let themselves be carried away by their marvelous imagination.
Conchita Requero
Advice: Teresa ArtolaPsychologist
