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How to nurture creativity in your kids

  • Written by James C. Kaufman, Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Connecticut
imageCreativity has many academic, professional and personal benefits.Stephen Simpson/Stone Collection via Getty Images

Parents who want their kids to be more creative may be tempted to enroll them in arts classes or splurge on STEM-themed toys. Those things certainly can help, but as a professor of educational psychology who has writtenextensivelyabout...

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