The Influence of Parents and Families on Talent
Source: Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall
Topics: Early Years (Birth-5), Growing Your Child's Creativity, more...
The first and foremost social group that exerts an influence on children’s creative growth and artistic expression is the family. In Greenspan, Solomon, and Gardner’s (2004) review of research on talent development, they found that parents shaped children’s talent in several significant ways, including modeling perseverance and industriousness, offering advice or giving explicit instruction, instilling a desire or expectation in children to participate in an activity, setting high standards and encouraging self-evaluation, offering moral support and keeping children motivated, proposing new challenges, and reorganizing their lives to permit their children’s abilities to flourish. “When the child’s abilities are truly prodigious, parental and social investments need to be prodigious as well” (Csikszentmihalyi, Rathunde, & Whalent, 1993, p. 26).
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