CREATIVITY AND CREATIVE THINKING

Creativity thinking is also called inductive thinking. When there isn’t enough information in your memory to find a solution, you add extra information by imagining and visualizing the effect of your input to find a better or different answer to the posed problem. You think from the known to he unknown. This kind of thinking is unpredictable but can be very original and highly gratifying. Creativity has neither boundaries nor age limits. Its is possible to train children to be creative to certain extent, but creativity is primarily a special gift which can be nurtured. Psychologists and educationists have asserted that being intelligent is not necessarily being creative. However intelligent people have a greater potential ability to comprehend art. Similarly, creative people may not be very ‘intelligent’ but they have special aptitude. Let your child do things his way and avoid too much guidance. Let him draw or paint the way he sees things without making any comments like “tress don’t grow in the sky”. This way the child’s joy of creating is lost. Help only when he asks for help. Some parents force a child to complete everything that he has begun. As time passes his span of interest will increase. Early years are the time for experimenting. It may seem that the child is developing bad work habits but he is actually learning by experimenting. Avoid showing off a child’s abilities too often, it destroys his desire to learn and makes him self-conscious about his talents. Forcing a child to recite, sing or dance, for visitors may make learning a very unpleasant job.