‘Innosense’
Creativity and Responsibility
Your brainchild can blaze a trail!
Your child can become a trailblazer!
A child may be enough, but not a brainchild. Entrepreneurship is the practice of problem-solving, innovation, value-creation, opportunity finding and technology application (PIVOT), for the purpose of impact and profit. Creativity is closely intertwined with entrepreneurial spirit through its ability to foster innovation. Entrepreneurs are constantly seeking creative ways to stand out in a competitive market and offer value to customers.
One of the very youngest inventors was Robert Patch, who was granted the patent for the toy truck when he was just six years old, back in 1963. Samuel Houghton was just five years old when he received a patent for his “sweeping device with two heads.” The idea came to Sam while watching his dad sweep in the backyard using two brooms meant for clearing away large leaves and another to pick up debris. God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” – Genesis 1:28 New International Version. In his lifetime, Thomas Edison was awarded 1,093 U.S. patents across a wide variety of technologies. Including his foreign patents filed in other countries, his total is 2,332. “Children are a heritage from the LORD, offspring a reward from him. Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are children born in one’s youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their opponents in court.” – Psalms 127:3-5 (NIV).
Brainchild is an idea or invention someone has thought up or created. Related words include contrivance, creation, discovery, idea, innovation, and inspiration. Adults are known for their sense (a reliable ability to judge and decide with soundness, prudence, and intelligence), while children are known for their typical innocence (lack of guile or corruption; purity). “Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.” – Haim Ginott. When we undergo an experience, our brain cells called neurons become active, or “fire.” “A child’s mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.” – Dorothea Brande. Children are born inquisitive, and it is this curiosity that allows them to learn more about the world through every experience and social interaction. Children like to explore, question, and use their imaginations, and this positive cycle of learning is fueled by the happiness that comes from discovery.
“Home Alone” is a 1990 American Christmas comedy film directed by Chris Columbus and written and produced by John Hughes. The first film in the Home Alone franchise, the film stars Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard, and Catherine O’Hara. Culkin plays Kevin McCallister, an eight-year-old with a penchant for creating harmful inventions who defends his suburban Chicago home from a home invasion by a pair of robbers after his family accidentally leaves him behind on their Christmas vacation to Paris. “The child is the father of the man”. – William Wordsworth. Possibilities are responsibilities. It is quite possible to help children grow in sense, and adults, in innocence and vice versa. Sense plus innocence is essential for inculcating value, cultivating productivity and activating vitality. Your innocence is a recipe for positivity, keep it! Your ‘innosense’ is a recipe for creativity, keep it up! Innosense is positivity in creativity, and creativity in positivity. Entrepreneurship is a spirit of creativity (capacity). It is also a spirit of positivity (character). The world is made better by creative individuals who are positive about life.
“The most powerful computer ever created isn’t a mainframe, it’s a micro and it’s housed within the few cubic inches of your head. Regardless of past programming for mediocrity, anyone can reprogram their brain for extraordinary outcomes. All they need is the right software and the commitment to use it”. Brain development is part of cognitive development. Cognitive development describes how a child’s intellect grows, and includes thinking, learning and problem-solving skills. Character development refers to the development of conscience, moral concepts, religious values, and social attitudes in the child. Cognitive development without character building is a burden to the society. The quality of a child’s experiences in the first few years of life – positive or negative – helps shape how their brain develops. The early years are the best opportunity for a child’s brain to develop the connections they need to be healthy, capable, successful adults. The connections needed for many important, higher-level abilities like motivation, self-regulation, problem solving and communication are formed in these early years – or not formed.
A child’s relationships with the adults in their life are the most important influences on their brain development. Loving relationships with responsive, dependable adults are essential to a child’s healthy development. Parents and caregivers who give attention, respond and interact with their children/wards are literally building values and virtues in them. That’s why it’s so important to talk, sing, read and play with young children from the day they’re born, to give them opportunities to explore their physical world, and to provide safe, stable and nurturing environments. “As parents become more aware and emotionally healthy, their children reap the rewards and move toward health as well. That means that integrating and cultivating your own brain is one of the most loving and generous gifts you can give your children.” ― Daniel J. Siegel, The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind.
Our primary mission as parents, child care providers, teachers and other members of the community must be to produce adults who are worthy in character and sound judgment. “Train up a child in the way he should go [teaching him to seek God’s wisdom and will for his abilities and talents], Even when he is old he will not depart from it.” – Proverbs 22:6 Amplified Bible.
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