4 year-old is the time that creativity
reaches the peak.
1.
4 year-old children are so creative
Comic writer Games that kids like, Kakotoshi
used to say “On my art work, including education books, or books for children,
I always imply “For kids, playing is living” or “Children are gifted at
playing. However, the Japanese children are not playing at all. There are no
places to play, no time to play, and no friends to play. Losing the playing
condition easily leads to the insensitive situation. Consequently, children
don’t want to play anything at all, and they have no will and pay no attention
to anything. The fact that they don’t play and don’t know how to play leads to
sudden actions, and they can’t concentrate on anything. Moreover, they can’t
control their own thoughts, guess or handle anything. As a result, they hardly
achieve in their study”.
For
kids, playing is living.
The purpose of education is not only
teaching children to be smart ones. The fact that your child is number one or
that he/she gets all A at school is not an important point. The indeed thing is
that they have something that others do not, which help them to contribute into
society.
That achievements at school go up and down
time after time is not an extremely considerable thing. The most important
thing is to nourish the children’s individualities, teaching them how to think
and make use of their brain. 4 year-old is the time that creativity reaches the
peak.
Our target of education should be “teaching
children to be creative ones”.
If you distract from educating your
children, they will stop at “memorizing” only. The education approach of Japan
has been in this way for long.
So how to teach children not to copy what
others do but to be people with creative brains?
A physiological doctor from Georgia –
United States said: “The thinking ability starts to flourish when children get
3, then reaches a peak when they get 4-4.5 years old and weakens after 5
rapidly”.
To enhance the thinking ability of
children, the period of 3-4 years old is the most important. In this period,
children who are educated well will have a creative brain.
2.
What is the uniquely creative thinking ability?
Children living in the 21st
century must be creative ones compared to others. We want to teach them to have
creative minds and creativity ability, then we must understand what creativity,
and creativity ability are and how they work actually.
Creativity ability is the ability to
increase new stuffs, or new thoughts that are proved more advantageous than the
world we are living in. Creativity is the basic factor which determines those
brilliant things can be executed or not. And this is a good factor.
However, the creativity ability is not
necessarily relevant to IQ. Because, to create, it is compulsory to give out
new ideas or answers that haven’t been accepted so far.
To teach children to be people like that is
easy or not? No, it is not difficult at all.
All children are born with that brilliant
creativity. The creativity ability of the newborn actually sets up when they
are just out of their mother’s stomach. First creative steps start at
concurrent time at which the senses start up. Looking with eyes, hearing with
ears, pronouncing with mouth, tasting with tongue, touch with hands, etc. are
all the creativity performances of children.
Children
living in the 21st century must be creative ones compared to others.
That creativity performance will be
flourishing if we know how to encourage and to help them practice.
It is likely that influencing on children’s
senses when they are new born until they get 6 will determine the study
attitudes of them later on. They may have serious spirit of studying, holding a
great creativity mind or not. Parents ignore the desires to study and
creativity seeds and wrong, and make mistakes when educating them (always
yelling or eliminating their responsibilities or forcing them to go to
extra-curriculum classes, clubs or leaving them alone playing, etc.). And it
can’t develop the available abilities, then the creativity desires will fade
away time after time and they become boring ones.
The
characteristics of creative children
1.
Curious
2.
Love experiencing.
3.
Keep on asking, and ask extraordinary questions.
4.
Can’t be satisfied with unclear answers. They keep on
asking when everything comes to be clear.
5.
Think up with new ideas.
6.
Try everything for the first time without being panic.
7.
Usually have conflicts thoughts towards parents,
teachers and friends.
8.
Independent
Creative children usually have those
features. As usual, many parents want to set ideal standards for their children
such as being obedient to parents and seniors, not fighting with others, and
not getting out of the limits, etc. However, there is a huge discrepancy in in
the definition of what ideal and creative children are. Parents should know
this beforehand to avoid the confusing between them.
