Give your child a problem, and ask how to solve it. Then, ask your child to solve it in a different way. Emphasize the process and not the final product. Encourage many solutions to a problem and many routes to a solution. Ask your children to create a house, but be vague and say they can create anything they want. If they get stuck, say they can draw a house, build one out of popsicle sticks or cardboard. Encourage them to make a house in many ways, down to making a dog house or a doll house or a house for a friendly monster. You may really want your child to learn piano or be a ballerina, but let your child choose what activities interest him or her. The more freedom a child experiences in activities, the more flexibility in the child's thinking. Your child will naturally gravitate toward activities that he or she enjoys. Encourage the exploration of those activities. Activities that can help inspire creativity include music, dance, drawing, sculpting, and painting. Have your child take classes such as painting, dancing, sculpting, or pottery. Art is especially helpful for children as it helps create and express the emerging personality. Choose activities that allow the child to learn basic skills, but also fill in the blanks with his or her own creativity. Find classes at your local community center, park district, or private studio. Allow your child to be creative on his or her own, and also in collaboration with other children. Learning with other children can be exciting and educational. Check out children's clubs or after-school activities that allow the children to collaborate and create something together. Working together and allowing the creativity to flow with other children can result in lots of fun ideas and lots of learning. Kids can create a dance, a song, a science project or a functional item like a boat. Get as many senses involved as possible in activities. Use movement, sound, texture, taste, and visual information. You can also play music in the background. One way to do multisensory learning is through learning a song with motions or a dance, or making up your own motions. Play with clay. You can choose different colored clay with different textures. Practice saying the sounds that the clay makes when it is squished, and notice how it smells. If you have an activity with only a few senses, imagine the others. You can ask questions about the senses, like "what sound do you think this could make?" If your kids tell you that the wind is made by the trees, tell them that it could be true, and ask what makes them think that. By allowing them to develop their own theories they can explore their own creativity! However, be careful not to make them think that their outlandish (and incorrect) theory is veritable fact; just point out that it's a possibility. Stay positive in your feedback and most of all, encourage your child to be creative. If you find yourself thinking, "That could never happen" or "that idea will never work", keep it to yourself and praise your child for thinking out of the box. If your child wants to build a spaceship to travel to the moon, encourage the venture without saying "That's impossible." Help collect building materials and encourage your child to think of different ways to get to the moon. If you have a hard time not putting down your child's ideas, say, "That's an interesting approach" or "I've never thought about that before."
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One-sentence summary -- Solve problems in different ways. Allow children to explore their interests. Enroll your child in creative activities. Connect your child creatively with peers. Encourage multisensory learning. Make sure not to falsify your kids' theories unless it's absolutely necessary. Encourage all ideas and keep all comments positive.

Article: Respect your friend's decision, even if it's painful for you. Don't hold out hope that they'll change their mind. It's not possible to make someone care about you, and dwelling on the rejection will only make you feel worse. Find a close friend or family member to talk to during this process. This can help you find support and feel less lonely during this time. Find someone who is not a mutual friend of your old friend and who can provide an unbiased opinion about the situation. Remind yourself that friendships end for all kinds of reasons. Rejection is tough, but it doesn't mean you're a bad person or unworthy of making new friends. It just means that particular friendship wasn't a good fit for the other person. If your self-esteem has taken a hit, take some time for yourself to recover. Work on personal projects or develop a new skill to rebuild your confidence. Socialize with positive people who are openly loving and warm toward you to remind you that you are worthy of friendship. Do not follow a former friend around or beg them to take you back. That will only irritate the person and erode your sense of self-respect. Give them their distance, and focus on moving forward with your own life. Reach out to befriend your coworkers, classmates, and other acquaintances. If you don't know many people, consider joining a club or taking a class to meet others with similar interests as you. If you want to get to know someone better, asking them questions about themselves and inviting them to get coffee with you is a good way to start. Just don't ask anything too personal before you know them well. You're not a toy, so don't let anyone treat you like one. It's okay to accept the person's friendship again if you want to, but don't make them the center of your social circle, especially if they caused you weeks or months of pain. If you realize that your friend is only coming back to you because they lost another friend or broke up with someone, you may want to consider turning down their friendship. Take a few months to think about the situation before deciding if that person is truly invested in the relationship again.
Question: What is a summary of what this article is about?
Accept that your friend has moved on. Avoid blaming yourself. Avoid chasing the person. Make new friends. Be cautious if your former friend tries to revive the friendship.