Tips on Raising the Children God Has Given YouSample

Can we define the creative child? How does a creative child look? Is there just one quality or area of giftedness? Is there only one formula with the same outcome? I believe that the answer to all those questions is no. If creativity is the ability or capacity of someone to create or produce something, then every one of our children would fit into that description. It’s not just talent, creative ability, or being a dreamer that defines a creative child but also factors such as temperament (personality traits), environment, and spiritual gifts (see 1 Corinthians 12:4-5).

Remember, you’re raising children, not robots. It takes a lot of time to study and know your children, to discover their unique characters, gifts, and talents, and then to teach them based on what you’ve learned.

I remember sitting down with my guys in their preteen years with Beverly LaHaye’s book Understanding Your Child’s Temperament and teaching them how different we all are. They immediately recognized each other’s temperament.

“So that’s why you do the things you do,” each said to the other.

That book also helped me know each of them better. I taught them how the body of Christ functions and that we all have at least one spiritual gift given to us at the time of our salvation. I believe these two things have helped them with filmmaking and relationships both at home and at work.