10 Reasons Why Parents Should Engage their Child in Make Believe

SHOW GUEST: Connie Dunn

In today’s world of electronic games and television, children do not visit the make believe world as often as children in the past have done. In fact, there are some children who don’t do it, at all! Shutting off the electronics or limiting TV and Computers to one or two hours a day is a healthy choice for children. Connie Dunn, author of "Grandma Honey, I Turned into a Mermaid," says "Children who have creative play or create make believe worlds develop their creativity. When children don’t explore make believe, they simply grow up without the ability to imagine how anything could work or how to imagine solutions to problems. Our world has always been filled with problems. It is the creative people, who can imagine solutions, that will always be needed."