arts and culture on Children's Imagination

[M]isery gives way to fun when you take an object, event, situation, or scenario that wasn’t designed for you, that isn’t invested in you, that isn’t concerned in the slightest for your experience of ...

Children, in particular, are driven to create—if we just nudge them in that direction. They thrive in a world stocked with raw materials. But too often, and with the best of intentions, we fill their ...

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.