What is imagination? If you look this word up in the dictionary it says:

IMAGINATION: the faculty of imaging, or of forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses.

The action or process of forming such images or concepts.

The faculty of producing ideal creations consistent with reality, as in literature, is distinct from the power of creating illustrative or decorative imagery.

The faculty of producing ideal creations consistent with reality, as in literature, as distinct from the power of creating illustrative or decorative imagery.

The product of imagining a conception or mental creation, often a baseless or fanciful one.

From Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/imagination?msockid=25909390c801636a15c0828ac9216251

Albert Einstein famously said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” Through imagination, people can explore ideas of things that are not physically present, ranging from the familiar (e.g., a thick slice of chocolate cake) to the never-before-experienced (e.g., an alien spacecraft appearing in the sky).

Are we allowing our children to use their imagination enough? Or are their heads in online media, games or TV?

There are a lot of information online about the harm or effects of our children, grandchildren using too much. Check out this link below that shares more about this with parents.

https://parenting.firstcry.com/articles/online-gaming-risks-in-children-signs-safety-and-solutions/

It can be so frightening to think that our children can become addicted to these games. Addiction involves many things not just drugs or alcohol. What can we do to protect our children? I don’t have the magic solution to this current issue in our world today. All I can suggest is to limit children’s time using these games and substituting books or games that you can play without going online. There are so many fun games that kids can be playing such as Monopoly, word games, etc. See link below showing many options for games for the brain.

https://www.gamesforthebrain.com/

These games are helpful to adults too for their aging brains. We all need to keep our brains working and thinking so they do not get stagnant and allowing our imagination and creativity to dry up.

I love jigsaw puzzles. I recently purchase one that my husband and I will work on after I complete my latest children’s book. Working on books, blogging, emails and promoting keeps my brain active and sparking with creativity and imagination that goes wild with ideas to create new books.

What are you doing to keep your brain active and healthy? Learning a new skill is one way to do that, e.g. a new language, sewing, crocheting, knitting, painting or other crafts.If you do this your children will be inspired to do something like this too. Let’s keep our children’s brain working at peak capacity so that they can learn and grow healthy in mind and body.

In order to reach our children before they begin playing these online games we must introduce them to books, games, puzzle – jigsaw, word search, suduko, solitaire, crossword puzzles, and many other books early in their lives.

When my children were young we played checkers, jigsaw puzzles, read tons of books, played with weebles, trucks, dolls and played make believe by acting out a story. I did the same with my grandchildren when I babysat. After a while they automatically pulled out the games and books when I went over. It was always so much fun and caused plenty of chuckles when I would lose a game, sometimes by accident and other times on purpose. I always included lessons in alphabet games I made up and number games too. I wanted my kids and grandkids to have a headstart when they began school by knowing their alphabet and numbers. I did a lot of singing too to make the letters and numbers easier to remember. My grandson especially liked when I sang Disney tunes, like the song from the Little Mermaid. I love that song too. I also did imitations of Grover, Cookie Monster and The Count from Sesame Street. I miss having a llittle one to teach since my grandchildren are all grown up. I guess I will just have to keep providing books for children to learn fun things about animals.

Watch for my latest children’s book coming in the next month, fingers crossed. Please check out all my books below to help keep your children’s imagination sparking.

Reading is important not only to keep your children’s reading levels up all year long but also it can increase their vocabulary, spark their creativity, enhance their health and wellbeing, and encourage them to become lovers of books. Let’s bring up a generation of readers and thinkers who will become successful and confident adults one day.

Let’s encourage our children to get away from the games and get into books and other fun projects that will increase their imagination, creativity and get their brains charged. It’s never too late!

Jemsbooks Children’s books are available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Thank you so much for stopping by read this post and for your continued support. Please keep your children reading to save the from the dangers of online games.

Jemsbooks have won 50 Book Awards – 21 Pinnacle Book Awards, 5 Reader’s Favorite Book Awards (Silver, Bronze and 2 Honorable Mentions and Finalist Medal), 17 Mom’s Choice Awards, 1 Authorsdb Silver Medal for Cover Contest, 2 Book Excellence Award Finalist, 2 Top Shelf Awards (First Place and Runnersup), 2 Maincrest Media Award, 1 Finalist in Red City Review Book Awards, 2 Finalists in Authorsdb First Lines Contest, and many 5-Star Reviews from Readers’ Favorite Book Awards.

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