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Arts and Crafts with Your Kids Fosters Creativity, Bonding, Fun

November 2, 2020 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

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EDITOR’S NOTE: City Dads Group is working with longtime partner Dove Men+Care to create “how to” videos for the grooming products company’s “Dads Care” campaign. We will be featuring the videos and scripts our members appear in. This one features Brent Almond of our Baltimore Dads Group, with a little help from his son talking about how to get your children into arts and crafts projects. During quarantine — or anytime, really — it can be easy to plop the kids in front of a screen and call it a day. Coming up with non-screen activities can be stressful. Crafts are a tried-and-true way for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: entertainment, parenting advice Tagged With: creativity, Dove Men+Care, tips, video

Art, Like Life, is Not Limited By Gender Roles, Stereotypes

July 29, 2019 by Chris Bernholdt Leave a Comment

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A teacher my son had said this to him about the art project he had just completed. A teacher who was supposed to bring out the best in him. A teacher whose very job is to inspire and empower all students. And so, his mind began to turn, "Was it really good or just good for a boy's effort? I am a middle school art teacher. When you train to for this profession, you are told that there are thousands of ways to praise. There is no room in art to undermine the creation, revision, polishing, and perseverance it takes to express oneself in art. In a subject where we think outside of the box, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: gender / sexuality Tagged With: boys, creativity, gender roles

Curiosity: Parents Need to Nurture It in Today’s Wired Children

November 14, 2018 by Vincent O'Keefe 1 Comment

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“So is every day a sunny day?” That is the question that stumped my father several decades ago when I took my first airplane flight as a child. Once we ascended through the dark gray clouds, I was stunned that the sunny blue sky reappeared in all its glory. My concrete-over-abstract brain at the time thought a gray sky meant the absence of the sun, not just its obstruction. Hence my question. “Well,” my father replied, “I guess you could say that.” Little did I know that by welcoming my question and exploring its meaning through a series of follow-up questions, he fostered my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: gender / sexuality, parenting advice Tagged With: creativity, technology

Fine Arts Promote Creativity, Growth so Let’s Stop Shortchanging Students

March 15, 2018 by Chris Bernholdt Leave a Comment

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The greatest tool you can use to help your children grow is something they can't cram for to pass a standardized test. It’s creativity.

Creativity affects the way we learn and grow. It can be applied to any subject and teaches us that, even within rigid structures, you can find freedom of movement to make something new. And creativity is heavily employed and deepened in others by exposure to art, music and literature -- the fine arts.

Show children a painting and ask them to tell you what it is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: education Tagged With: creativity

Encourage Creativity in Children Through Art, Conversation

April 27, 2016 by Vincent O'Keefe 3 Comments

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It began with a simple question from my oldest daughter, age 4 at the time: “Daddy, what is art?” “Art,” I began, “is something that, well, let me think about that for a moment.” What was art, indeed, I asked myself while continuing the mindless routine of a frantic preschool morning: load the dishwasher, supervise the brushing of teeth, check the backpack, and head out the door. On the way to school, I muttered a few tidbits about art being a way humans change materials like clay or paint into beautiful objects. As with so many adult explanations of abstract concepts, however, the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: parenting styles Tagged With: creativity, tips

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