12 Powerful Parenting Methods for Raising Creative, Resilient Children

 

By Bob Eckert & Sheila Delarm, New & Improved, LLC

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Organizations all over the world are clamoring for a more creative workforce, secure in the knowledge that the creative thinking of individuals is the starting point for all innovation.  As a regular reader of The Innovative Brain you're likely here because you’re most concerned with enhancing creativity such that your businesses might thrive, yet many of us are parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles or “parents-at-large” too.

This article is focused on parenting skills that will help us raise our children to become creatively competent and resilient adults.

Here are the key parenting methods – based in the research and the wisdom passed to us from others – that we used and refined. Taken as a whole, we think these were powerful tools to help our kids grow to be the creative and resilient adults they are today:

1) Never tell kids they are smart.  Rather, when they are young, tell them they are....