Broad: All kids aged 6-11 year olds
Core: Boys aged 4-9 year olds
Aged 6-11 year olds:
- The time to accept knowledage
- To accept new things quickly
- imagin the world that something they does not know
- like play-- watch TV, play video game, sports,etc...
- easy has bad habit
- like to imitate adults behavior or language
- cantious and watch things happen
- like to touch
- doing something in order to be pay attention to
Aged 4-9 year olds boy:
- like to play--sports, video game, watch TV (cartoon programme) favorite show, action and comedy cartoons
- lack of patience
- complex sense of humor
- edgy
- mischievous
- to be taken care of inwardly
- never stop to move
The Value of ImaginationBy Ruth Mason, Parent Center Directorwww.wholefalily.comOur world is becoming faster paced and more frenetic every day and our kids are being swept up in the current. School, homework, piano lessons, judo, art classes, TV, computer games, the internet. It sometimes seems like every minute of their waking time is taken up with an activity. Climbing trees, playing hopscotch and tag or just gazing into the middle distance and letting the imagination create seem to be in danger of becoming extinct. Great thinkers have always known about the importance of imagination:
"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
- Edgar Allan Poe
"You see things and you say Why? But I dream things that never were and I say, why not?"
- George Bernhard Shaw
"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts."
- Robert Fulghum
"You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus."
- Mark Twain
In Nurturing Imagination, Sherri Mandell interviews a number of experts who explain how valuable imagination is: from enabling kids to be better problem-solvers to more effectively handling their own difficult feelings to better handling stress. Click on that same piece to read the sidebar Zombie Children about the effect of TV on imagination.Our Early Childhood specialist Esther Wolfson, tells us about the critical importance of imagination for young children in Imagination: Childhood's Natural Gift and in Imagination: Your Child's Window to the world. Wolfson coins a phrase, "imagination skills" - which we hope will convince parents that imagination is as necessary a tool for future success and happiness as academic skills. Click on the same page to get ideas about activities you can do with or set up for your young child that will encourage her to use her imagination.
One mother wrote to us concerned about her daughter's imaginary playmates. Psychologist Naomi Baum reassures her by pointing out that "studies have shown that children who have imaginary playmates tend to be more creative and intelligent than average." To read more, click on Imaginary Playmate.To explore a mother and father's differing attitudes towards their dreamy children, and to read an expert's comment's on their dilemma, go to why are they always just sitting there?
We hope these pieces will prod you to remember what you already know: Our children's imaginations are precious. Let's not lose them in the shuffle.
Aged 4-9 year olds boy:
