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How Can You Encourage the Genius in Your Children?

November 10, 2008

I have Legomaniacs in the house, know what I mean?

These boys would spend every minute of the day building amazing creations with Legos if I didn’t make them stop to eat and sleep. Yes, they are addicted.

After a discussion in the DealingwithLearningDisorders.com community this week about creativity, I looked “creativity” up on Wikipedia to see what it had to say.

Listen to this:

“Creativity has been attributed variously to divine intervention, cognitive processes, the social environment, personality traits, and chance (’accident’, ’serendipity”). It has been associated with genius, mental illness and humour. Some say it is a trait we are born with; others say it can be taught with the application of creativity techniques/ simple techniques.

“Although popularly associated with art and literature, it is also an essential part of innovation and invention and is important in professions such as business, economics, architecture, industrial design, science and engineering.

“…entire industries have been spawned from the pursuit of creative ideas and the development of creativity techniques.”

Here’s what I got from that:

Creativity is a result of:

*The way you think  *Your environment  *Your personality

I have conscientiously designed our environment to give my children the freedom, acceptance and time they need to explore their personal interests.

Often, people wonder if I give them too much time. I wonder that too. But the creations these guys come up with shows me that giving them long periods of uninterrupted thinking time can result in some pretty amazing creations.

Check out this Spartan armor Benji made:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3M8msj3lcY

This kid also has a very easy going personality and loves to tell jokes at exactly the right time.

Because of the way we have structured our family life, these kids are developing a very mature way of thinking.

Is it by chance? I don’t think so.

I’d say it is my design. It has taken a lot of sacrifice for us to find the place where we live and to create the environment that allows us all to work and learn from home.

I think we are starting to identify a gift this boy has. I’m not sure where he’ll go with it but at 15, the possibilities are limitless.

I’m sharing this info and video with you to encourage you to relax and trust yourself and your child and to give your kids more free time to explore their world.

Don’t let them sit idly on the couch watching TV, movies or even playing video games. Those don’t challenge the mind to work and create something useful for society; they only stall the brain in neutral and steal days and weeks of productive time.

Encourage them instead to do something creative. Finance their projects. Give them tools and resources they ask for.

Most of all, give them time to develop their genius.

That boy or girl that drives you crazy may just design the answer to this economic crisis we’re in.

You never know.

So many books, so little time…

Rhea! who sincerely believes that everyone is gifted; we just haven’t identified how

P.S. Don’t forget to grab a copy of the videos from our Entrepreneur Days 2008! They will change your life!

http://www.EntrepreneurDays.com

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