Comments on: Activity #231: Say something other than “No”

By: Tegan & Tage

Tegan & Tage — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:56:31 +0000

I couldn’t agree more. A couple of years back I watched a friend let her baby play on the kitchen floor in a cornstarch/water soup wearing nothing but a diaper I thought to myself, “I want to be that mom.”

My 5-month old splashes around in the bath tub every night and there is water everywhere… it makes me smile every time.

By: Janelle

Janelle — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:32:41 +0000

Love it! It’s so much fun for kids when they get to do things like this – and pretty cathartic for parents who say “yes” to themselves to get involved. I bet those play-dough shoes feel pretty awesome!

There was a Harvard study that found that all children were geniuses across multiple intelligence scales up until age four at which point it declines until age 20. At 20, only two percent still geniuses. Maybe a piece of the intellectual decline is how we stifle creativity and learning by saying no so often.

By: Claire

Claire — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:00:19 +0000

What a great post! I think saying yes more than no would be good for my well-being too. At the end of the day, saying no all the time is very hard on me emotionally.