As an artistic person, I am especially interested in educating creative kids. While creative children may very well be able to have an interest in art, history, science, and English, many will find these subjects inane and boring without a bit of creativity on the part of the instructor.
How do you tell if you have a creative child? Creative children are often very capable of doing subjects outside art, but they are easily distracted when they do not find the subject fascinating. Besides a propensity to draw, sculpt, and create, a creative child will exhibit the following:
- During language arts instruction, they are far more interested in reading and discussing stories than conjugating verbs and diagramming sentences.
- Science is far more interesting to them when there are charts, and graphs, experiments, than words in a book. They would rather experience nature than read about it. They love field trips.
- Then can remember the events of history, but the places and dates escape them. They can tell you what state is next to which, but the names of capitals and state information is lost to them.
- Math is seldom a problem, unless they have to memorize facts. Multiplication is often done with fingers and toes, and theorems are seldom remembered and quickly forgotten.
- Children are always more interested in what is going on outside of the window than at what is going on in front of them. If they are or have been in school, you have been told they have ADHD, and medication has been recommended.
If any of these behaviors or tendencies sounds familiar, then you have a creative child. While this child will be easier to educate if you too are creative, parents who are less then creative really have nothing to fear. Stay tuned for my next posts on tools and techniques you can use to teach the creative child in your life.
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