How To Unleash Your Child's Creative Potential During Covid-19? | Mr. Bhart Goyal
Just when we thought that everything was going back to normalcy, the pandemic hit us harder. Once again we are confined to our homes. Work-from-home and online classes are once more becoming the new normal.
Children are creative geniuses by nature. But we have all seen how pandemic has killed children's creativity. The creativity of children gets compromised.
When kids go to school they get the exposure to creativity in early childhood. Pandemic kills creativity but we can adopt measures to encourage creativity in children from homes. We can take help of different method to develop creativity in kids.
Ezyschooling, in association with UNLU and Bhartiyam International School, has thus brought to you a panel discussion on 'How to unleash your child's creative potential during Covid-19'.
If you’re a teacher or a parent, I’m sure you’ve come across this situation: picture two children with the same resources, same background, same school, and even the same teachers.
One picks up a book and reads naturally and fluidly. The other moves slowly through the text with poor comprehension and even worse concentration.
We often blame the teachers or the parents. Even worse, we sometimes blame the child. We call them lazy or unintelligent.
Well fortunately, science tells us that none of it is true. One of my children struggled in this same way, and now she has recalled many important aspects of her primary schooling – things that at the time her teachers were convinced had not sunk in. A great joy of mine is being able to go back to my daughter’s teachers and tell them their hard work paid off.
It wasn’t the fault of a poor education, but simply poor brain / body coordination. So how can we unlock a child’s hidden potential? It has to start with addressing the root cause.
The human brain is divided into many different sections. We’ve developed into such beautifully complex organisms, with each bit playing a crucial role in our lives. The piece that we pay significant attention to is the cerebellum.
Your cerebellum is responsible for coordinating your skill development, muscle coordination and also has significant influence on how your emotions are controlled. That means everything from writing with a pen to riding a bike. When your cerebellum has fully developed a skill it becomes incredibly efficient; it performs it without any conscious thought. Unlike animals when they are born, human babies are born with virtually no skills and have to start developing them immediately – a maturing process that continues to beyond puberty.
Another part of your brain, which we’ll call the ‘thinking brain’ for ease of understanding, is not so efficient. It requires an incredible amount of thought and energy to perform all those skills that have not yet been hardwired by the cerebellum. The brain processing there moves far slower, and it is less refined.
That’s why whilst learning you are consciously riding a bike, i.e. using your thinking brain, you will inevitably fall off. Once you master the activity, your thinking brain becomes far less involved as the processing takes place in your cortex where it is instinctive, automatised and effortless. Usually when your cerebellum has fully developed these skills you never forget.
