Saturday, February 5, 2011

Enhance Creativity in Kids


The era we are living in is the era of competition. We all are striving hard to win, win some race that even we can’t figure out. If we think of it things always were like this. Humans are always after one another. We don’t really know why we want to win from our colleague, neighbor or a close relative; but we want to. We want to move ahead, reach to that level where nobody ever did. Children these days are under more pressure when compared to the people before. What parents couldn't achieve, they want their kids to accomplish. In this race for the fittest we never want our kids to waste their time to explore themselves.

Be it painting, drawing, sketching, composing beautiful musical notes, writing a soul touching poem or a prose; there is no living person who doesn't have the sense to create. It’s just that some talents need to be groomed and discovered and some ooze out of you automatically. Every baby is born with a talent. As he grows up, we try harder to crush that talent and force him to be what we want him to be. To be very honest, none of us wants our kids to excel in any field related to art. We always want them to grow up to be a doctor or an engineer or an accountant.

Art is a definite form of expression. Anger, happiness, excitement, disappointment, rejection and what not; they all can be expressed by any form of art. Children face all these at some time or the other when they are introduced to the real world. They get a better way to let out these negative and positive emotions once they know how to do it the creative way. Creativity always helps to keep the mental and at times physical health at a balance. It is medically proved that the kids who are appreciated to create things, no matter how ridiculous, grow up to be more intelligent. Their vision gets broader. They see and achieve what others can’t. They grow up to own a more balanced personality.

Every kid is born with a different temperament. Some kids are hyper active others cool and calm, there are many who are aggressive, some like expressing their feelings other like keeping all it to themselves. We need to figure out how we can make use of their positive and negative energies. Most of them can be helped out through art. Discover what your kid is good at. Encourage him to do what he likes doing. If he wants to take it to the professional level, let him. Getting into the fields like these is tougher when compared to gaining a degree in medicine or accounts, we understand, but not impossible. Don’t be afraid that your kid will lose. Give him all the confidence. If a kid has a passion to do it, he will strive hard to achieve it.

YOU CAN SEE THE SIMILAR POST AT WRITING FOR A CAUSE

27 comments:

  1. Well the thing is, in this day and age, people don't acquire knowledge for their brains or for the intellect, they gain it to earn more and more money. The more degrees they get, the more money they think they will earn.

    sadly this is today's output with the input of knowledge.

    This can only be changed if people start acquiring knowledge to understand what this world has to offer rather than just running for money, which after all is necessary to help oneself to fulfill the needs of life, but the excess of everything is bad.

    No wonder why ALLAH and His Messenger S.A.W.W loves not the extremes but the middle ground

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  2. for a moment I thought I am reading theme concept of "taare zameer per"
    anyhow... well written... the point is this issue has been raised any discussed by many these days but still the parents are afraid in allowing their child to do what he wants... is the reason for this is what only you mentioned "parents failed to do so themselves" or something else as well... I know some people who only wanted their children to do what they did,,, because they did well and are living well.. There can also be a reason of orthodox lifestyle... some people are also afraid of testings...

    Thank you for raising this point again and better if we could come up with some "real world examples" so that parents who kill the creativity in their children don't do it... Recently there was one other Indian movie "udaan" with the same subject.

    At last i only want everyone to join me in big round of applause for SARA. * applause applause*

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  3. wonderful post sara. i personally know a frnd who had intrest in fine arts but was forced by her parents to be a doctor. she did her mbbs and never practised. according to her it was her parents wish that she did mba and now she has done masters in fine arts and is a lecturer in a college :P:P

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  4. It will happen when we give them full confidence and support. Along this parents never impose their own choices or personal preference on children, let them free to go ahead on the way/field of their choice.

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  5. Concerned about kids’ future have made parents to force & stick with limited choice of career oriented well earned studies on their kids which is in one sense is good thing if their kids haven’t had any particular passion but if they’ve then parents should let them do what they want and don’t let the creativity die.
    Kudos to you for another thought provoking write-up, stay blessed always!

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  6. it felt like as if im sitting in my montessori directress class :) well written piece,

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  7. Very well written Sara! good job bringing an issue like this to light, Kudos!

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  8. Nice post. Your vision will ease ur future life :D

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  9. Lovely read, Sara, and the entire post reeks of your genuine concerns for kids. Good insights with better solutions...proud of ye!

    Keep writing.

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  10. O wise one....please enlighten me on how can we encourage a dumb lazy kid into some passionate pursuit....? I really wants to know what some kids are good at....other than being a couch potato and drinking soda (boys) and texting sms and sulking all day (girls)....:((

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  11. A nice one again.. Your blog is Awesome :)

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  12. thanx all..
    @wasiq depends on the moods and temperaments of your kids. you need to figure it out.

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  13. Wonderfully written. When art is left unnourished, we often live our whole lives within a hole. Art helps brings out the passion & beauty in a person.

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  14. Rightly Pointed out, well I guess the biggest injustice we do with the kid is to make him/her into the competition with counterparts at very initial phase of life, in fact the competitive race takes away every intellectuality & creativity from us.

    In humanitarian & religious perspective as well, we need to promote collaboration, sharing and sacrifice among the kids. They must be learnt to cheer not only their success but also others.

    We need to tell them that this life and world has countless blessings & opportunity to offer everyone. Success of one cannot be regarded as failure of other and vise versa.

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  15. Mood and temperament are inherent characteristics of an intelligent life form commonly known as human beings.....I was talking about the insensitive creatures born just to increase the human race....have a company fitted processor programed for "APATHY" ...:((

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  16. thanx waqas and sanaa
    @wasiq oh yeah...u r right actually..now, wt we can do is help generations coming ahead become better humans

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  17. it not just you and I....it is a universal truth and a protocol agreed upon by the UN and Pepsi many many years ago.....but the question is how...lets take an example of a pre-teens girls...who goes to a concert...have loads of fun returns home and says "Mom I wanna be a singer..." gets a guitar and few accessories ..lip sings her favorite songs with karaoke for few days maybe weeks....takes part in school functions and then quits....:((
    so tell me how I can help her ...should I get her a tutor ,make her join some classes to improve her singing...or should I say to her in the first place..."shut up and go to your room and concentrate on your studies....you cannot be a singer...!"
    :((

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  18. oh well..i never said kids should QUIT studies and start playing guitars and stuff. my point is, let them do if they want..HAVE to get done with the studies ofcourse

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  19. Sara, this is very well written. The right side of the brain of a small child will develop better in my view if parents allow room for creativity. For grown-ups I work with we use paintings, music, dance to tap into the unknown. It is highly effective. Happy to share thoughts further.
    Angie

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  20. Madame please make up your mind soon....do you want me to help the kid or let her waste the time on boring stuff like studies...which is a complete waste of time after it has been discovered what AMAZING talent the kid has got....I thought YOU were on OUR side :((

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  21. @angie thanx =)
    @wasiq ur kid HAS to get done with her studies 1st. she can continue with guitar-ing as a hobby. once she gets done with her studies. she can take guitar-ing to the professional level if she wants. no more discussion over the topic. i am no counseller. my blogs are just my thoughts. agree or disagree, ur call. i cant just drag the things on everything i write. THANKYOU.

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  22. no thankyou...you sound so much like her MOM ...I will never let her know that you want every other kid in the world to be treated specially according to the temperament ,intelligence,creativity and energies...but HER...promise :((

    If you ask me it makes no difference at all whether I agree or not....but as a friend and admirer and well wisher....I want YOU to agree with the thoughts that you write in YOUR blogs...giving in like this will only create doubts in the minds of your readers and believe you me they may not be your FANS like I am...
    besides the one big mistake that you are doing is that you are sharing the same blog post on a causes site as well....mare rant and ramble in the name of "MY THOUGHTS" is not good especially when you are "writing for a cause"

    I do respect your wish if you do not want any more discussion over the topic but I really don't get what you mean by "drag the things"
    you may not be aware of the universal truth that I am a born and bred silver spoonian...I can butter up you like nobody can.....if that's what you want....let's start again consider this my first comment for this blog post...
    Wow! sara this is incredible....I was thinking the same thing last night...they say great minds think alike...welldone sara I could have never worded it so well...great job...its very interesting read I must say you are very thoughtful and intelligent as always...the kids these days are not as dull and unimaginative as they used to be in the olden times...we must do something to help them...we must...you are very right...I support you all the way...thanks for this very educative blog post....I hope to see more like these very soon.ALL THE BEST !
    :((

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  23. @wasiq i still dont get what your point is. blogs are the personal thoughts. i dont need these fake praising lines. they dont make a difference. why do u always have to prove it all wrong everytime i write anything. if i write for a cause, that too will be MY thoughts about it..not anybody else'..and you can always say you dont agree. u have a right to, but stop mocking it all here if u can.

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  24. Sara, mashaAllah this is really a good post. i will send this to mom. and definitely i will have this viewpoint if i become a mom myself. i have totally found this relevant as i was deliberately kept away from art though i had the passion for it, all for practicality's sake. i do not condemn my parents entirely for it but the struggle to create an identity/personality (for the lack of a better word) would have been easier had my creativity been allowed to flow freely. with that said, thank you for writing this. :) may Allah SWT continue to endow you with more ideas beneficial for your readers and for yourself as well.

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