Thought of the Day by arbitrarykitten

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Thought of the Day
Reality is not enough.  



We need imagination and dreams to augment the facts.  To say that daydreaming is a waste of time is a mutilation of everything our very lives are built upon.

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I urge kids to daydream.  To get lost in their own heads.  But it wasn't too long ago that children were punished for daydreaming.

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Reality alone is not enough to exist on.  Without hope life is merely survival.  Without imagination, the universe cannot grow.  Without dreams we remain at a stand still.

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Without the ability and want to create something bigger and more, there is no movement forward.  

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Without dreams we perish in the truth.

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@binkyprod ·
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I find that children in school these days are not encouraged enough to write creatively. Since I was teaching English as a second language to my step-kids this Summer, I gave them activities that involved creativity. Some was drawing, some was creating a card like in Magic the Gathering, they could inspire themselves on cards I owned. My step-daughter, after translating 3 cards (learning to use a dictionary) decided to write, in French, but it's still creative writing, a semi-discovery type documentary commentary about the three creatures, inventing the world, inventing their behaviour, inventing everything but their name and what they look like and she, in this way, created a whole new world. So every time we did English activities, her fun was to write creatively afterwards. My step-son has a bit more trouble focusing on a task, but he enjoys reading a lot and that can help develop creativity as well. He's a bit younger too.  My husband and I always encourage that they play games that will enhance their imagination, as in invent a game.  I am a very creative person, so I really enjoy exploring creativity with the kids.
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@arbitrarykitten · 
Children are not taught to exercise creativity or how to think critically.  

One thing I implemented was our nightly dinner table activities.  Each person would share one thing they did that day for someone without expectation of return- a random act of kindness (you'd be surprised how many kids drop the contents of their lockers and binders in a week, lol) and then we would have a fun critical thinking exercise.  Sometimes it was in the form of a riddle- it's amazing how you can expand your mind by trying to wrap your head around a riddle!

We went through several months a couple years ago when things were hectic and we were not sharing mealtimes.  The boys voiced great displeasure at not having our dinnertime routine!  They missed it something fierce.
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@binkyprod · 
Sounds like fun. We did riddles earlier this Summer. The kids like to play cards, so when it's our weekend with them, we make sure to play cards. My step-son is 9 and he is able to beat me at crib ;) It's a great math game, a memory game, a strategy game, and there is luck involved too. I like playing cards too, so we do that more than board games.
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@kwakumax · 
Well stated "without imagination , we are merely surviving" . Its a great piece.
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@arbitrarykitten · 
Thank you :)
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