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Creative play, chaos and personal development

From the day our children are born, their brain is set to chaos as the main programming. Modern society use the rest of their lifes to teach them to put everything into a system and control chaos.

According to the Finnish brain researcher Matti Bergström, society’s need to control, could have major consequences humans and our future. He believes that we should maintain the chaos of the child within us, nurture and care for our inner childish chaos through out our lifes.
It is in the childish chaos that all development and creative thinking lies. If we control and suppress chaos, we will at the same time suppress the possibility of developing the human ability of creative thinking. Thus comparable to the ability to think independently and problem solving.
Creative play helps to maintain chaos, and show us the way to new ideas, we have not yet thought of.
The more freely we can play, free of adult logic, the more we benefit from this to learn to understand the world around us. An understanding that helps us process all incoming impressions leading to personal growth and development.

It is a very important parental task to make room for our child´s imagination, create the right conditions, in such a way that chaos can live within the child and help it prosper and grow.
How do we do so?

We must put aside our adult logic and need for control. Curiosity and believing that anything is possible will strengthen your child’s self-confidence through the land of Fantasya and thereby the child’s belief in him or herself.
Do you participate in the creative play yourself, you will not only enhancing the ability to maintain creativity in both you and your child. You will also strengthen your child´s social skills. The ability to share, include others and give room for other ideas than ones own.

Most of us have been taught that chaos must be controlled, we must be the one in control, keeping stress down, keeping up with demands of modern society.

What would happen, if we let go of all that, put everything aside for while and let chaos be our friend in a creative timeless zone together with our children.
I believe that everyone of us would benefit in a very positive way. That we would be even better equipped to tackle the challenges and high tempo that a moderne family faces every day.

Our advice to you: Make sure that any one in the family always have assess to creative products, let go of control, embrace chaos, enter the universe of infinite possibilities, see the world through the eyes of your child joining in on the creative play.