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Stop Trying to Make Your Kids Creative

Stop Trying to Make Your Kids Creative

Good Inside with Dr. Becky vor 2 Monaten

Dr. Becky and Austin Kleon talk about what creativity actually needs to thrive, and what so-called "problem kids" and great artists have in common.

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Parents are being sold creativity like it's a subscription box.
Workshops, kits, frameworks, scripts: the message being that your
kid needs more imagination and it's your job to install it.
Austin Kleon, author of Steal Like an Artist and Don't
Call It Art, has a different take: your kid already has it.
The imagination, the playfulness, the willingness to not-know —
it's all there. The question isn't how to give it to them. It's
how to stop blocking it. And maybe, while we're here, how to get
a little of it back ourselves.

Dr. Becky and Austin talk about what creativity actually needs to
thrive (not a workshop), what so-called "problem kids" and great
artists have in common, why your kid's obsession with garage
doors is not a problem, the link between play and depression, the
game that got Austin through the pandemic, and the teeth-brushing
song Becky invented entirely by accident.

Read Dr. Becky’s ideas for how to be a playful parent when you
don’t feel like playing.

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