AIRED: July 25, 2016– 11 am PST
TITLE: “10 Reasons Why Parents Should Engage their Child in Make Believe”
SPECIAL GUEST: Connie Dunn
In today’s world of electronic games and television, children do not visit the make believe world as often as children in the past have done. In fact, there are some children who don’t do it, at all! Shutting off the electronics or limiting TV and Computers to one or two hours a day is a healthy choice for children. Children’s work is play, and when they are not able to do this, their cognitive development is stunted. Cognitive development includes the development of mental processes of perception, memory, judgment, and reasoning, as well as influencing emotional and decision making processes.
Connie Dunn, author of “Grandma Honey, I Turned into a Mermaid,” says “Children who have creative play or create make believe worlds develop their creativity. Every person needs to be creative so that they can figure out how to solve problems and create things, everything from art to new electronic gadgets. When children don’t explore make believe, they simply grow up without the ability to imagine how anything could work or how to imagine solutions to problems. Our world has always been filled with problems. It is the creative people, who can imagine solutions, that will always be needed.”
ABOUT CONNIE DUNN
Connie Dunn is an author, speaker and book writing coach. She helps authors and aspiring authors to develop and publish their book. She specializes in working with fiction and non-fiction writers, in particular: novelists, young adult, middle grade, children’s and picture book authors.
Connie’s focuses on indie (independent) publishing – “Indie” publishing, similar to “indie” film-making is an independent choice. She has been an Independent Publisher since 1981. She has been writing all her life with about 30 books, screenplays, and curricula published. She has taught creative writing, freelance writing, religious education, and a variety of creative workshops.
Connie has more than 30 years’ experience as a newspaper journalist, freelance magazine writer, technical writer and course developer, religious education course developer, storyteller, children’s book author, fiction and non-fiction writer, and teacher for Independent Book Development.
Everyone has a book in them; let Connie help you spread those valuable contributions of wisdom to the world. If you don’t write it, who will? No one has your particular perspective to share.
