Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That's very true.
One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.
The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
The child who has no need to feign empirical knowledge about life can wonder and fantasise with great ease. The world is his oyster, or any other thing he wants it to be.
If you're an only child, you spend a lot of time by yourself, and you develop a strong ability to entertain yourself, to conjure up fantasy.
For a child, reading a book can be such an intense experience.
Children are so creative and imaginative that they just bring you to life all over again.
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?