Improvisations on the walls or your kid took up the wallpaper

And so, the time has come, your baby holds a pencil perfectly, and he realizes that he is a creator. – What to do?

How to live this period of rock art with your baby. A few recommendations that will prove the value of such wall art in a child:

1. During this period, when your baby wants to create on beautiful new wallpaper, he comes to understand the primary freedom of creativity. A stable mental attitude is being formed I – I can, I – I create. And if the parents do not create sufficient conditions for this important manifestation and will limit, and even worse punish the child, he will subsequently slowly and imperceptibly lose faith in his own strength, that he will be able to create something valuable and important himself.

2. Drawings on the walls in your house, this is a wonderful signal, your baby becomes a part of society and wants to somehow sound and broadcast in it, so that his masterpieces can be seen by everyone. And this is a very important component of the full social development of the baby. Prohibitions in such cases or provocations of shame on the part of an adult can cause social phobia in the future, the child will not be able to be included in social structures and boldly manifest themselves in them.

3. Going beyond the sheet and creating museum-scale masterpieces on the walls is a kind of primary training to do something outside the box, in a different way, unusual and, as a result, the development of the possibilities of creative self-manifestation in different life situations. The habit of doing something out of the blue is a very important skill of modern personal effectiveness. And if you limit your child in this, do not be surprised that when he needs to find a way out in adulthood, he will not be able to afford it.

4. The drawings on the walls are a symbolic declaration of the child – “I was here”, a trace that he wants to leave as a Creator significant for the World. If parents do not give such an opportunity to a child from early childhood, then do not be surprised that when he grows up, he will not be able to achieve his dreams for the good of Peace and goodness. After all, once the wall became more important than a sketch of a picture that could change the whole history of art.

Summarizing everything written above, I beg you give your child a wall for art, specially organize space for free creativity. This short period of “rock painting” lasts no more than 2 years, but can affect a lifetime and become the beginning of success or the beginning of complexes and neuroses.

Take care of your little Creator, and may the Muse come with him!

Victoria Nazarevich © Children’s drawing