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Are children’s imaginations stifled when their rooms are decorated with marketed themes? Keep their gray matter growing by giving them space to focus on what juices their own creativity; When rooms are filled with raw material, kids have optimum opportunity to become their own heroes.
As a child, 1 played on my bed for hours, pretending it was a Conestoga wagon plodding West. No toys were needed apart from a knit shawl and a bonnet borrowed from my grandmother. A scene change called for dramatic capture by Indians, after which I went barefoot and wove my hair into braids. All the action was happening inside my head. One of my own little girls outdid me, though. One day, completing a writing assignment on deadline at the typewriter on the dining table, I had piled up toys and dolls for Leyah to play with, then dove into my work. Later I noticed the room had become totally silent. My four year-0ld was sitting stock-still in a little chair in the middle of the floor, staring into space.
I panicked thinking something was terribly wrong. “Leyah, are you all right? Why don’t you play?” I said. “Get your dolls and, please, play house or something!”

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