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Disruptive Imaginology

February 11, 2019 by Clay Clarkson 3 Comments

“It’s just that if you’re not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly.”  Robert Adamson, Australian poet “Disruptive” sounds like something that needs to be disciplined. It’s not a very attractive term, but there may be a redeemable quality to it for parents. And since I really like the title of this post, I intend […]

Filed Under: Fostering Imagination, Parenting

Benjamin West and His Cat Grimalkin

March 7, 2018 by Clay Clarkson 6 Comments

We read lots of historical fiction to our children. Most books were good at imparting information, some were rich in explanation, some filled us with inspiration, but only a few captured our imagination. It took a true storyteller to do that. The words “history” and “story” are from the same Latin and Greek root words, […]

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Use Their Imagination

October 2, 2017 by Clay Clarkson 5 Comments

[I]magination has the property of magical expansion; the more it holds the more it will hold. ~ Charlotte Mason, Towards a Philosophy of Education, 1925 It’s easy to make the mistake of thinking that imagination is like inspiration—that it just kind of happens. Not true. Imagination is just like a muscle—it will become weaker or stronger depending […]

Filed Under: Fostering Imagination, Parenting Tagged With: Charlotte Mason, Imagination

Imagionality: Understanding Your Child’s Imaginative Personality

January 27, 2014 by Clay Clarkson 6 Comments

A foreword of forewarning: This post is a bit longer than I usually write. I hope you will indulge my windiness. The ideas just couldn’t contain themselves in an economy of words. This is the first of three posts on understanding your child’s personality in an imaginative family culture. ~Clay Personality type is a popular […]

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The Cost of a Creative Child

March 25, 2013 by Clay Clarkson 11 Comments

It’s been a while since I could write for the Story Warren because of our conferences. My mind is still a big puddle of gray goo because of them, so I’m going to write about something I’m watching happen right now, a little creative drama played out in my son’s life. I just want to […]

Filed Under: Fostering Imagination, Parenting

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