Thoughts for the Week:

Creative work and play come from within a person. Creativity can be many things -- finding new solutions to old problems, making up a simple song, dressing up, pretending. It may be as simple as using an old curtain for a bride's veil, a cast-off pair of adult shoes for pretending to be a mother or father, or a discarded spoon for digging a river bed in the dirt. Each child's expressions of creativity will be different, and by encouraging those differences, we adults let our children know that we value the unique person each child is -- and the unique adult he or she will become.