Today, raising creative kids won’t happen naturally. It has to be a choice. According to teachers and experts from across America, kids don’t innovate like they used to. In a world where technology lets us live in other people’s ideas, life in school is increasingly regimented, and the last few years have made it challenging to have new in-person conversations, creativity’s decline is hardly a surprise. Even so, parents have often failed to fight the changes that most harm their children’s creativity, according to Dr. Leonard Sax, a psychologist. “American parents have abandoned their authority to an extent greater than any other country,” he said. According to the teachers, psychologists, and other experts who lead the struggle to keep kids creative, parents can do a lot to protect kids from the worst effects of technology. But to make things better parents need to act, they say. You Are Your Child’s …
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