Thanks for posting this article. I thought this was great:
Having studied the childhoods of highly creative people for decades, Claremont Graduate University�s Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and University of Northern Iowa�s Gary G. Gute found highly creative adults tended to grow up in families embodying opposites. Parents encouraged uniqueness, yet provided stability. They were highly responsive to kids� needs, yet challenged kids to develop skills. This resulted in a sort of adaptability: in times of anxiousness, clear rules could reduce chaos�yet when kids were bored, they could seek change, too. In the space between anxiety and boredom was where creativity flourished.
There was also some research that came out recently linking TV to children's psychological problems:
Children who spend more than two hours a day at a computer or watching television are more likely than others to have psychological problems, scientists claim.
I can see how children would spend less time in creative play if they're watching lots of TV and not developing their abilities to find creative solutions.
It�s this inability to conceive of alternative approaches that leads to despair. Runco�s two questions predict suicide ideation�even when controlling for preexisting levels of depression and anxiety.
