Annotated Bibliography 

“Imagination in Child Development: Why It’s Important.” Miracle Recreation, 3 Feb. 2021,  

www.miracle-recreation.com/blog/importance-of-imagination-in-child-development/ 

This article talks about the importance of imagination in our childhood and how this can help children’s development later in life. The article explains the definition and function of imaginative learning and its beneficial upbringing to the child’s language, physical, creative, communication, and problem-solving development. 

Assess: The author is not displayed in this article. However, this website specializes in the recreation and well-being of children, the research on infant brain development along with behavior while providing safe ways for kids to explore their mind and their surroundings. With this being said, this article is somewhat not trustworthy but the website is known for writing on children’s development which can be considered as reliable. 

In my paper, I will use this source to present the importance of imagination in children and how it helps them as human beings. 

 

Bright Horizon Education Team,“Nurturing Creativity & Imagination for Child Development.” Bright Horizons, 

www.brighthorizons.com/family-resources/nurturing-creativity-and-imagination-for-child-development.

This article addresses the importance of imagination along with some advice on nurturing the upcoming youth and how to offer a pleasant childhood environment. An observation was made on Cleo, a 4-year-old preschool student. Her comment on how purple milk comes from purple cows helped Webster to define imagination as a way to create a picture in our brain of something never experienced before.

Assess: Bright Horizon is a medical center that specializes in the well-being of children and their relationship with their legal guardians. Since 1986, they have worked with pediatricians to overpass the obstacles put by their families. With their extensive knowledge on parental relationships since 1986, this makes a Reliable source of information. Adding upon how experiments stated in their articles are preceded by this company making their examples and data more reliable.

In my paper, I will use this article to identify the ways we can implement a positive imaginative experience for children and how they portray their imagination in their daily lives

 

 Jill Holtz, et al. “Why Imaginative Play for Children Is So Important.” MyKidsTime, 28 June 

2020, www.mykidstime.com/for-parents/imaginative-play-children-important/. 

According to this article, imagination in children can develop better communication skills and better physical skills. Imagination also helps them to experience the world from a broader perspective and enjoy their surroundings in a playful and innovative way. In a controlled and safe environment, kids would be able to be themselves through imagination.

Assess: Jill Holtz is the co-founder of MyKidsTime with the goal to help parents understand better their children’s behavior and how to bring a better environment for them through her articles. With an MBA degree in Marketing, Jill Holtz decided to create a platform where parents and their kids could have questions answered based on their parental needs. Jill Holtz having experience on kid’s development along with working with behavioral specialists makes this article reliable enough to use on this paper.

This article will aid me in identifying the importance of imagination and a way to understand a child’s experience from an adult’s perspective. 

 

Colier, Nancy. “Are You (Unknowingly) Discouraging Your Child?” Psychology Today, Sussex 

Publishers, 17 Jan. 2020, www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/inviting-monkey-tea/202001/are-you-unknowingly-discouraging-your-child. 

This article talks about how parents indirectly can or get to discourage their children’s innocence and imagination by buying too many “helpers” such as toys that can limit the kid’s imagination and creativity to put themselves into their playful persona. How companies are making parents have the need to buy toys for their kids all the time.

Assess: Nancy Colier is a psychotherapy psychologist that specializes in speeches regarding the well-being and mindfulness of children. According to Nancy’s background and educational journey, she specifically specializes in the psychological process in children making this a reliable source.

This article can help me state the ways imagination in kids can be discouraged by adult influences and how these behaviors might affect kids.

Eanes, Rebecca. “The Psychology of Imaginary Friends.” Creative Child Magazine, 

www.creativechild.com/articles/view/the-psychology-of-imaginary-friends. 

In this article, the author tells her audience about the experiences she had as a kid with her imagination and how having imaginary friends helped her and multiple kids develop their personalities by exercising the brain. Some consequences are stayed like how “their imaginary friends” could be able to instigate inappropriate behavior and so on.

Assess: Rebecca Eanes is an author that created multiple bestselling books regarding parenting, children, and development. The researcher aims mostly to the parental concerns of our society with more than eight years of experience in parental and kid’s behavior research. 

This article brings to my paper the way imagination can be somewhat dangerous if it is not supervised and how it can bring unsafe copping practices to kids but also the way these statements are refuted. Rebecca has experience in parental interactions and kid’s behavioral development with almost a decade of experience in research and writing about children despite her lack of college experience, she might be a good source to use in this paper.

I am planning on using this article as my refuting side of my argument and how it can be debunked by the previous pages cited.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rrAF9IMGGtQ_aPK3aIWZGzqXOmuAAJDHiezrY4BLO_w/edit?usp=sharing