Without question this is true. Encouragement is the strongest force that enables a child to freely explore, discover and create him or her self. It allows a child to safely risk becoming more in each ...

There are as many definitions of creativity as there are people who try to define it. I’m using the term here to describe a habit of mind that questions convention and is open to the surprising ...

In 2012, early-childhood education expert Nancy Carlsson-Paige wrote the following on this blog: We have many decades of theory and research in child development that tell us so much about how young ...

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From the living room to the board room and many points in between, today’s world is often complicated, requiring layers of thought in order to unravel the solution. Or like a light bulb, the right ...

On August 1, 1966, the day psychiatrist Stuart Brown started his assistant professorship at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, 25-year-old Charles Whitman climbed to the top of the University ...

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Disney led the Children & Family Creative Arts Emmys, which were handed out on Saturday night in Los Angeles. The studio easily outpaced all other platforms with 13 wins, 10 for Disney+ and three for ...

Moments of insight trigger a reward in the brain… just like an orgasm. Some people get an almost orgasmic rush of pleasure when they have a creative insight. According to researchers at Drexel ...