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  A comment on Conversation: Children's schools should have an "Imagination" period

  May 21 2012: I agree 100%! Nowadays due to evolution of technology children in their early childhood have acces to so many distractions that there is very little room left for development of their imagination and creativity. I believe parents should restrict video games, electronic books, tablets for children, television for young children.
  
  Even A simple bed time routine for toddler - when you read a book to them consistantly every night, develops their imagination. I have done that with both of my children and they LOVE story times! It helps them to "draw imaginative pictures" in their minds. We have created a pattern for story times which is one night mummy would read a story (I make up stories each night as I tell them) that is THEIR request :) and other night they would tell me a story they have created in their mind, based on events that they experienced durin the day or just pure wishes and dreams of their little minds.
  
  I think nowadays children are growing up too fast, children don't believe miracles that often anymore. I used to believe that fairies bring Spring and that when it snows Angels shake their duvets snd cushions. I believed in Santa Clause and Easter Bunny till I was around 9 yrs old because we never had dad coming dressed as Santa where you would notice his back beard showing through synthetic Santas glue on beard! For my sister and I Santa was always a BIG mystery! He would leave presents for my sister and I and we would wind them together with his "left behind scarf or his mittens covered in snow" ! All these little touches and stories my parents took time to organise for us made us think think and think! We imagined and created stories and art works based on our imagination.
  
  Children create future and it is in our hands as adults and parents to "mould" them into creative, descent, healthy minded individuals! I strongly believe that children would and ARE benefiting from "imagination exercises" and the importance of that should be stressed more.