[blparent] Creativity and Imaginary Friends

[Veronica Smith]

I agree.  It worries me when a child cannot imagine. I did as a child and
now my daughter. V

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From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Deborah Kent Stein
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 8:46 AM
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I would say it's nothing to be concerned about and much to celebrate.  I 
feel sad when I meet kids who seem to have very little imagination and seem 
quite unable to play without an adult plugging in ideas and directions. 
Sounds like Sarah has a wonderful gift!

Debbie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at pcdesk.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2010 11:40 PM
Subject: [blparent] Creativity and Imaginary Friends


> Hi.  I was wondering when you all first noticed imagination in your kids. 
> Sarah is just now two and a half, and she's really amazed me lately with 
> some of the stuff she's come up with.
>
> First it was Maggie.  A couple of months ago, Sarah saw her reflection in 
> a computer monitor on my desk, and even though she knows herself by sight 
> in a mirror, that reflection became Maggie.  Sarah won't mention Maggie 
> all the time, but now and then, she'll greet her on the way past the desk.
>
> Then, in the last couple of weeks, Sarah started talking about a pink cake

> on the wall of a garage near our condo.  She came up with a whole story 
> about how somebody was carrying a pink cake and crashed it into the wall. 
> I asked a sighted friend if she saw anything unusual on that wall, and she

> said there was a big splotch of pink paint, probably graffiti.  She said 
> it was "little girl frosting" pink.  So that's how the pink cake came to 
> be.
>
> Last week, Sarah and I were outside, and she said there were baby animals 
> under the big pine tree in the front yard.  She led me by the hand to 
> investigate, and the baby animals--horses, lions, birds, monkeys--turned 
> out to be pine cones.  I tried to explain to her what the pine cones 
> really were, but to her, they were baby animals.  So she decided we 
> couldn't leave the baby animals all alone, and she wanted to take them to 
> see another imaginary character--a yellow farmer--which it turns out is 
> the fire plug at the edge of our parking lot.  I don't know what the 
> neighbors must have thought of the two of us walking back and forth, back 
> and forth, carrying pine cones from the tree to the fire plug--Sarah could

> only hold a few animals at a time, and she wasn't interested in my help. 
> She arranged the animals around the fire plug farmer and wasn't satisfied 
> till she'd gotten all of them into his care.
>
> I've really had fun watching Sarah's imagination blossom, so I'm wondering

> if all of these elaborate stories and characters are something common to 
> most children, or if this is anything I need to be concerned about.
>
> Jo Elizabeth
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