A new study suggests that teaching kids creativity can increase resilience.

<div class="block">A new study suggests that teaching kids creativity can increase resilience.</div>

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Study: Creativity Strengthens Children's Resilience

So a new study suggests that teaching Children creativity can increase their resilience in the face of real life problems later in life. And we we are talking about drawing with crayons, things like that. No researchers from Ohio State University trained elementary school kids to use creative techniques such as perspective shifting, like imagining yourself as different characters in literature and in theater. The students were then asked to solve a hypothetical problem and the results showed that they were well prepared with multiple solutions. The author of the study said that teaching students creative techniques can help boost some of the resiliency skills Children lost during the COVID-19 pandemic.