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Use your Childrens creativity to escape Cabin Fever

Winter is on its way, and the dreaded cabin fever is bound to creep upon you. It's ironic when this happens, most people are just so hectic that overstimulation is the norm. But there are definately times when every one is just plain BORED. You know you've been inside too long and your children are growing restless. The routine sounds like this. "What do you want to do?" "I dont know, what do you want to do?" I made up a game and tried this with my own child, and he was smiling in no time...

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When cabin fever hit my son and his friend, I asked them what do you guys think would be fun? As they began to think about it, I interrupted their little brainwaves and said, "No, say the first thing that comes to your mind" We went through every unreasonable idea they could think of, from letting a tiger loose in the city, to filling the entire living room with balloons and popping them with a dart. Of course knowing none of these things were gonna happen, it got their little creative minds working and in no time, they were on their own, finding creative things they COULD actually do.

The whole game took about 5 minutes and it was entirely fun watching their faces light up, lifting them from the dragged down state that we were ALL in. It's fun to just listen to the crazy things children can come up with off the top of their heads. The goal is to let them flow creatively, with a little direction -not to interrupt their ideas, but to keep them moving along expressing themselves until they have a good idea, or at very least are in a happy mood.