God Made Us Curious

Nurturing them to grow strong in their own intellectual formation and opening a world in which they could wonder at God’s handiwork became my primary goal. Children allowed a wonder-filled life will cultivate inner strength, a confidence in their own ability to think, evaluate, and know. So those who influence children must fight to protect time for the imagination to have space to work. It became a focus in our home to create a learning environment in which there would be freedom to explore many subjects, where our children could engage in different interests and grow at their own pace. Providing sources of intellectual stimulation gave them brain food: puzzles, hundreds of books at their fingertips, magazine subscriptions, creative toys, dress-ups, paper and pens for writing their own books, musical instruments, and more gave them opportunities for self-learning every day. I could see that my children were naturally interested in learning, exploring, understanding; my goal was to nurture that love for learning, that innate desire to grow stronger in their own capacity to think, create, read, and synthesize their thoughts.