“Maybe if you would have remembered the damn papers we wouldn’t be turning around! I ask myself every day why I am still married to someone as useless as you.” My mommy yelled. She said the ‘D-word’ too which means she’s really mad. “Pull the car over you stupid bitch I’m done with this!” My daddy screamed back. As we went to the side of the road, daddy jumped out and mommy got out too, pushing him and yelling more. Whenever mommy and daddy fight, I get scared because sometimes they yell at me, but it’s ok. I have my friends Jimmy and Sue. You can’t see them because they are invisible! They make me laugh and make me feel happy every time mommy and daddy start screaming. If they didn’t show up when I needed them I don’t know what I would do… Today children use their imagination as an escape from their reality because they feel scared, lonely, or just need another way of finding happiness, like in the example above. To begin with, one of
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The wanting to create happiness is another cause for why children turn to their imagination. This can range from creating imaginary friends like the examples above, or even creating another make believe world. According to my survey, 50% of the children said that the like to “play pretend”, in their words, just to have fun because it made them feel happy. There doesn’t even have to be anything particular wrong in the child’s life sometimes for them to want to use their imagination. A kid could have a perfect lifestyle and then still turn to imagination just to create a form of fun and happiness for themselves. For example, I asked children what types of things they did when they “played pretend” just to have fun and they responded with, making up games with their invisible friends, creating a new world to live in and explore, or even sometimes play “house”. If they are already happy though, then what causes them to still use their
The wanting to create happiness is another cause for why children turn to their imagination. This can range from creating imaginary friends like the examples above, or even creating another make believe world. According to my survey, 50% of the children said that the like to “play pretend”, in their words, just to have fun because it made them feel happy. There doesn’t even have to be anything particular wrong in the child’s life sometimes for them to want to use their imagination. A kid could have a perfect lifestyle and then still turn to imagination just to create a form of fun and happiness for themselves. For example, I asked children what types of things they did when they “played pretend” just to have fun and they responded with, making up games with their invisible friends, creating a new world to live in and explore, or even sometimes play “house”. If they are already happy though, then what causes them to still use their