A Room Fit For a Princess

Night after night, you read stories to your little girl stories of the four princesses, Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Belle…you see your little girl excited, reliving each story told again and again…until she falls asleep…in dreamland.

What fun it could be if she wakes up one day, to find herself in her own fantasy land…right in her own play room. A wonderful room, a princess set, complete with fantasy table and chairs, secret compartments for her tea sets and trinkets a music box, even a clothes hanger and her own bench. A room fit only for a princess, in all its majesty of pinks, lilacs, and whites.

The fantasy playroom is not just a playroom. It is a special place where your child’s imagination can run wild. It is a place where your child can have lots and lots of fun.

When choosing a fantasy theme, consider one that suits your child’s personality. Girls may dream of being princesses, some may want to be a rock stars, some Barbie or Bratz, even doctors and nurses. Boys may want to be princes, knights in their shining armor, GI Joes, or even policemen and firemen.

Help fill your children’s imagination, talk with them about their fantasies, soon, they will be forming little plans in mind. Soon they will grow up, and look back at their play and fantasy time with a loving heart.

Feeding your child’s imagination

How else can you feed your child’s imagination? For the toddlers, read storybooks use different sounds for different characters. Imitate sounds of animals and vehicles that are shown in picture books. Books with large and colorful pictures work wonders. Help your toddlers visualize on their own, so try to limit television and videos at this very early age. Let you toddlers’ minds create their own pictures in mind.

Pretend, make imaginative play. You may use props like plastic beads for precious jewelry, towels or rugs for magic carpets, and stuffed animals for animal farms. You will find a lot of these in your child’s toy box. This exposes your child to different people and animals, places and events.

Join your children in dramatizing events from their real and fantasy lives, like your child plays doctor and you are the patient. This helps develop a child’s social and verbal skills. Sometimes your child plays out different scenarios that happened at one point in time, involving feeling happy, sad, frightened, different emotions. Your child may imagine being a teacher, or a wizard, a teacher, giving a sense of power.

Help your children create imaginary situations and guide them through to think creatively and solve problems. Psychologists say that children who were encouraged to imagine are the ones who are able to cope up with difficult situations and challenges while growing up. They know how to cope, say, when they forget a book needed in school for that particular day. Or when they realize that their parents have been late to fetch them from school. They do not panic.

Finally, listen and appreciate your child. Show your child how you enjoy these moments of fantasy and play.

Posted: 8/13/07

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