Creative Baby

CAN WE TEACH CREATIVITY? CAN WE OBSERVE IT?

Yes!!!!!!!

* To the Creative baby, Creativity can be taught, and creativity can be tested.

It can be viewed as a product, but it is also a process… An intellectual process! And the most important information about creativity we have when the subject of creation is baby is that the child creates his/her knowledge about the world inside himself/herself. S/he uses his/her own organization through creation, affectively and cognitively. S/he is in action creating internal schemes, structures and systems. We are only the ones who intermediate! And we have a better information: - That we can help him/her to create special knowledge about the world by stimulating him/her to learn everyday!

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* If the baby is generating and inventing his/her knowledge about the world by facing problems and approaching problems that stimulates him/her, his/her inner motivation grows towards more involvement with his/her surroundings, context and circumstances.

* YES, s/he has creative brain, with power to look at everything and look to bits of information form fresh perspectives. What are the paths and new ways s/he has to put patterns experience together? By experiencing, acting upon and creating from reality s/he is involved with. And who are the intermediaries between the baby brain and the world? We, the parents!!!

* The maximum you can do for your baby brain is to promote experiences of touching, smelling, hearing, listening, observing; it is to perform and to let the baby perceive learning as an adventure! Guide the Creative baby to seek wholes, patterns and relationships in objects and people! Expose him/her to music, art, drama and language. Remember, let the baby try!

THIS…THE BRAIN UNDERSTANDS!!!!

Eliane Leao, PhD

2006 Creative baby

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Want to know more about Creativity for Parents/Teachers and the Learning process? Check out these articles by Dr. Eliane Leao below:

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