Raising creative kids: Make a home that builds imagination

Here’s something middle-aged and older parents can relate to: Reminiscing on your childhood, how often did you go outside to play? Remember those makeshift outdoor games using rubber bands as jumping rope, or flipping bottle caps, or hopping around chalk drawings on the ground? Kids back then certainly let their imagination run wild.

But times have changed and children today are likely to be stuck indoors, in front of the TV or at their devices. Computer games are fun and some are even educational, but being sat all day pushing buttons means that active and creative play rates among youngsters have plummeted over the years.