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Inspiring Creativity in your Kids

Inspiring Creativity in Your Kids

 

 

Children are born curious, but they often hit a “curiosity cliff” around age 7, when their natural wonder begins to decline. In this episode, Amy and Sara sit down with Patrick Miles, Innovation Strategist at Chick-fil-A Corporate and a WinShape Homes foster parent, to explore how parents can nurture their kids’ curiosity. Patrick shares why curiosity is essential for our children’s future and how it equips them to solve the world’s challenges. Together, they discuss practical tips for making our mundane daily rhythms into problem-solving, innovating moments our kids can build on. Patrick also explains how simple family activities can turn everyday moments into opportunities for innovation and growth, inspiring creativity in our kids. Join us to learn how to cultivate a creative mindset in your home and inspire the next generation of thinkers.

Question of the Week: Who is the most creative person you know and why? In what ways are you creative?


Time Stamps:

(0:41) Introducing Patrick Miles

(3:50) Definition of “innovation”

(5:04) Definition of “creativity”

(6:30) It takes all different types of people to be creative. How has God made YOU creative?

(9:25) Children are born curious. But then they run into a problem. They grow up.

(11:02) The curiosity of a child is gold.

(11:21) Asking kids more open-ended questions help strengthen their curiosity.

(12:53) Cultivate an environment that allows your kids to fail safely, without judgement

(13:48) Avoid information overload by limiting the quantity of kids’ structured activities.

(15:35) The trajectory of tomorrow will largely be shaped by the curiosity of our kids today.

(19:16) What benefits can be seen in a home that has a parenting mindset of innovation and problem solving?

(22:32) How can we help our kids to think for themselves?

(29:43) The starting point: How can we begin inspiring creativity and curiosity in our homes?

(33:20) Ask questions and model curiosity for our kids.

(36:25) Tips for transforming mundane daily rhythms into innovating moments our kids can build on

(42:04) Question of the week 


Links:

Book: A More Beautiful Question – Warren Berger

Resource: A Children’s Library of Question Books

Resource: What should children learn in school?