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Imagination: Child’s Fantasy or Reality?
By Larry Seitz | November 15, 2007
How can a child convert imagination, experienced when they are allowed free time to play, into a positive life long behavioral change? This magical uninhibited creative time can allow a child important learning and enhancing behavior.
“Aha,” so say you doubters out there. “What’s the real significance of this philosophical banter?” Well actually, it is quite simple.
The child learns from what they are but also, through their imagination, what they want to be. Children love this opportunity because it becomes their source of freedom. Everything else around them has limitations with structure. What a three year old wears, or eats, or participates in is based on the decision of the parent.
The child is not bogged down with adult like time sensitive achievement or worldly pressures. The child relies on a wonderfully precious method to experience new places, people, and things. Simply, they use their imagination. A wonderful ability that parents should encourage.
Once their creativity and dreams are allowed to flourish, it becomes an integral part of their reality. What adult has not witnessed the child hold court with imaginary friends, play act, and engage in a meaningful conversation all of which becomes an entertaining experience. Giving the child their ‘space’ allows them the opportunity to express this gift.
Perhaps, herein lies the real opportunity to cross the sensitive bridge to a healthy and nutritious lifestyle. If obesity appears to take root in the primal years of life, why not help their imaginations with something that will help the child positively shape their own healthy future?
This is precisely what parents have related as they experience their happy child engage the SunPower Kidz™ in their imaginative world. These imaginary friends, although real as cartoon characters, have been that special playmate that has allowed the child to reap benefits. In their play, parents have told of their children thinking that they too were a SunPower Kidz™, happily filled with magic and fun.
Unfortunately, their friends, like childhood do not last forever, but what has been experienced has been an acknowledgment of what particular food the character represents. Now the child, because of their positive and fun time, brings that memory into later years as they continue to eat those foods that their imaginary friend represented. The real beauty is that the parent never had to coerce the child in any way to participate in that eating experience as the choice was completely a voluntary one.
Herein lies the answer as to when does fantasy become reality. So now, parents can use the tremendous power of a child’s imagination to foster continued dreams and fun with a child’s approval. Many testimonials fill the pages of the SunPower Kidz™ to reinforce this simple conversion.
The fantasy has become reality as these special and delightfully fun characters are becoming an obvious core participant in commercial ventures. To date, opportunities have blossomed by futuristic motivated companies recognizing the potential of the SunPower Kidz™. In the near future, more products in the food and beverage industry and world of education and entertainment will fill the child’s world.
Peter Potato™, one of the most popular vegetables, represents a sport that so many children love to play and watch all over the world.
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