Book description
Is genius shaped by the imagination of childhood? Cobb's collection of autobiographies and biographies of creative people, as well as her observations of children's play, suggests just that. She sees the child to be innately connected with the natural world. Inner powers alone do not further the imagination. Her bookā¦
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Cobb's Ecology of Imagination is tough sledding. It's academic, abstruse, and also remarkably insightful. I still don't understand all of what she's saying, but what I do understand is her portrayal of the importance of middle childhood, "between the strivings of animal infancy and the storms of adolescenceāwhen the natural world is experienced in some highly evocative way, producing in the child a sense of some profound continuity with natural processesā¦.āĀ Our goal, as parents, should be to find ways for our children to feel that "profound continuity with natural processes" during the middle childhoodā¦
From David's list on bonding your children with nature.
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