Creating Creative Creatures

Today I got a wonderful note from an intentional mom of two beautiful children who was part of my audience at a talk I did a few weeks ago in a local MOPS group. I spoke about being an intentional parent and finding, fostering and promoting the creative urges in children.

It is important to have a world of creative people. She blogged about it and made my day! 

I saw a speaker yesterday who was talking about creativity in children. He was engaging and entertaining. He told some stories from his own life, which is always interesting to me! 

One story he told was of his six year old daughter who was in her kindergarten class and her unbridled ability to view the world as full of awe and wonder. Her teacher gave her class a little task - take that piece of paper and crayon and create something you can share with all of us. The little girls sat quickly at her desk and began to  draw. Her teacher came up behind her and asked, "What are you drawing?" The little girl said, "God." The teacher said, "But no one knows what God looks like." The little girl continued to draw and said, "They will in about one minute."

Children have so much to say and much of it is through art. Please take time to listen, to watch, to praise and to partake. They are little for such a short time.

This is the blogsite in which the mother I mentioned added my story to hers and I appreciate it SO much! 

http://www.houseofcooley.com/creating-creative-creatures/