Question

Lyndsey, a 3-year-old, shows her drawing to her mother. The drawing includes a circle with dots for eyes, a single curve for a smiling mouth, and a short line underneath for the body. Her mom says, "That looks like Daddy!" If the mother wants to encourage her daughter's creativity, what should she have said instead?

Answer 1

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Step-by-step explanation:

Creativity plays an important role in children development, through playing in creative ways, children grow socially, emotionally and cognitively.

3 year-old children are in the preoperational stage according to Piaget's theory, during this stage, children have strong imagination and intuition so parents can use that imagination to encourage creativity.

When Lyndsey showed her drawing to her mother, the mother said what it looked like to her (like daddy).

If she wanted to encourage her daughter's creativity, she could have made questions that had to do with Lyndsey's imagination, for example:

• Tell me about your picture,
• What did you draw?
• What were you thinking while drawing?
• What's the story of your drawing?