Imagination Running Wild

“Only an unfettered mind, where imagination has full play, has the audacity to challenge the impossible.” – Uell S. Anderson

Let kids imagine what they are imagining. Their minds at young ages are naturally “unfettered” so adults should allow them to express their imagination in whatever words they use. This means we should help them formulate their imagination into sentences if they are at a loss for words. Fostering their imagination and helping to grow it will only further necessary critical thinking skills later on and teach them that dreaming big is not a worthless activity.

Entertain their imagination and see the world through their eyes. It’s actually fun to play along and have fun with them. As adults, we don’t have the time to imagine or we’re so jaded that we don’t allow it to happen. We let others think things for us. We let technology do all the work. We are obsessed with news. So instead, let a child’s imagination be your experience, too. Encourage them lovingly that it’s ALL possible.

Here are a list  of inventions that would have blown your mind only twenty years before they became REALITY:

Gasoline and automobiles purchased and owned to take us wherever we want to go, whenever we want to go
Electricity for every day and casual use
Computers used for conducting business
Internet dictating our every move, health question, education, and social interaction

Who’s laughing now?

Move over, mamas and papas and make room for your child’s imagination to come into full play. Stand clear for your little one who has the audacity to challenge the impossible could be the next Edison, the next Einstein, the next Bill Gates or Mark Zukerberg!

After all, everything that is real was once imagined!

 

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