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Creativity CAN be taught to children, and professors of English at the Ohio State University now report a better method.  The traditional approach called divergent thinking that focuses on problem-solving and working memory expansion hasn’t cut it.  Instead the OSU profs recommend the narrative method successfully used by novelists.   This narrative method uses 2 techniques.  The first is to encourage children to create new worlds in their minds.  This meshes with their love of other worldly video games.  The other is perspective-shifting that encourages the child to pretend they are someone else and create a story from another’s point of view.   Studies have shown that young children are naturally more creative than adults.  Their creativity appears to be blunted by our formal educational systems that emphasizes rigid logic and rote fact memorization.  We as parents and grandparents must oppose that tendency by playing creativity coaches during the precious early years we have with our children.  Use the narrative techniques to do just that.   

https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nyas.14763   

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