RAR #251: Fostering Wonder and Creativity, with S.D. Smith and Carolyn Leiloglou
Read-Aloud Revival ®
Sarah Mackenzie
4.9 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Raising creative kids is a beautiful, worthwhile endeavor, but not one that is always neat and tidy!
In today's episode, I’ve invited two of my good friends and fellow creatives—authors S. D. Smith and Carolyn Leiloglou—for a conversation on how our creative work as adults impacts our kids. We discuss everything from the challenges of nurturing creativity in our families to the influence of stories on our hearts and minds.
S. D. Smith is the author of the wildly popular and perennial Let the Kids Speak favorite Green Ember series and is a father to four imaginative children.
Carolyn Leiloglou is the author of the middle-grade fantasy series The Restorationists and a homeschool mom to four creative kids.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
- How connecting with the wonder in our kids fuels and enhances creativity
- The value of boredom (a best-kept creative secret!)
- The nuances of how we measure creative success
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Sarah here, this episode is also a video episode. So if you'd rather watch it rather than listen to it, |
| 0:07.0 | you can watch the episode on our YouTube page. Go to read aloud revival.com slash video. |
| 0:14.0 | And while you're there, don't forget to subscribe so you don't miss any of our future video |
| 0:17.8 | episodes. |
| 0:18.8 | Read a Loud Revival.com slash video. Welcome to the read aloud revival. |
| 0:28.0 | This is the show that helps you make meaningful and lasting connections with your kids through books. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm your host Sarah Mackenzie. |
| 0:40.0 | Today I've invited two of my creative favorites onto the show and we're going to talk all about our creative lives as adults and also raising creative kids |
| 0:49.6 | The tension between those things how stories shape our kids to be more creative, all kinds of |
| 0:55.4 | good stuff. |
| 0:56.4 | We really get into it, and I even read a favorite essay of mine by Catherine Patterson during |
| 1:01.0 | this conversation, and then Carolyn and |
| 1:03.8 | S.D. Smith respond to it. Now you probably know S. D. Smith. I call him Sam in this |
| 1:09.6 | episode. He is a friend of mine of course. He is the author of the very popular |
| 1:15.8 | Green Number series which has sold over a million copies I think. Wildly successful |
| 1:21.1 | probably read aloud Revival, taught most recommended book in our Let the Kids Speak |
| 1:26.1 | series. Kids are always calling in and saying how much they love, the green number. Sam is here today and |
| 1:31.5 | he's talking about his own creative process and raising |
| 1:33.9 | creative kids because he's a father of four. He and his wife Gina home school there |
| 1:37.2 | are four kids in West Virginia. Also here today is Carolyn Le Lagu |
| 1:41.7 | who's also a great friend of mine. |
| 1:44.2 | And she has a couple picture books out, |
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