Week 6 Discussion – Juan G

It is clear that peer interactions enhance children and adolescents creative writing abilities. Children and adolescents tend to build on each other’s ideas and get motivated by having an audience. However, I am thinking about the role of parents in this area; I wonder that if instead of enhancing creative writing, parents might limit it because they may have the impulse of pushing children and adolescents to stay closer to reality instead of letting them create very fictitious stories.

Also, I am wondering how we can equip and motivate parents with very limited education to get involved in creating and writing with their children. These parents may have a low self confidence because of their limited skills.