Why Imagination Is So Important For Your Children's Development?

Probably you wonder why I am so focused on developing children's imagination in my classes and stimulating their critical thinking. I will be honest with you. I do it because

I sincerely care about children and our future. How will we educate better personalities of us when we don't put enough effort to allow them to develop all their sides?

At school, kids are not educated to practical knowledge and develop skills that truly would serve them in real life.

Einstein achieves all his knowledge thanks to his imagination. If we don't have a good imagination we will barely imagine a clear picture of what we want from life or what to achieve. If we don't have clarity about what we exactly want from life and ourselves, how are we able to motivate ourselves to put all our efforts to achieve it? If we don't have a good imagination, how are we going to be able to see different scenarios or opportunities from what we experience in life? Do you realise how important it is to develop our imagination?

As a parent, you might never consider all the ways a good imagination benefits your child. Here are a few of the benefits.

Imagination helps your child develop social skills

As children play/pretend, they explore relationships between people and learn more about how to interact with them. Imaginative play helps develop empathy for others. If children can imagine how it feels to be left out of a game or to lose a pet, they can better help those in need. They become more willing to play fair and cooperate.

Imagination helps your child build self-confidence

Young children have very little control over their lives, and imagining oneself as a superhero defending the planet is empowering to a child. It helps them develop confidence in their abilities and their potential.

Imagination helps your child to work out fears

Playing/pretending can help children work out their fears and worries. Imaginative play also helps kids overcome confusing feelings they might have, such as anger toward a parent or rivalry with a new sibling.

Furthermore, imagination builds social-emotional development by allowing children to contemplate different solutions.

Imagination and creativity are also skills that our children will need when they face real life.

To encourage your youngster’s imagination, you should read to them every day and make up stories with different scenarios. The stories offer children the opportunity to visit other worlds and create new ones of their own, to experience different situations and develop their sensation and intellectual growth.

I hope you have more clarity about the importance of developing imagination now. :)

Thank you for reading the article, but thank you more for reading to your children.