Article: 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.”
Question: What is a summary of what this article is about?
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: The first step in cleaning your clothes will be to treat any spots you've found. This is important, as washing the clothes before treating spots may make those spots set. If you do this, spots will be a lot harder to get out.  Use “Spot Shot” or another stain removing product on spots you think can be removed. Consult a dry cleaner. Dry cleaners may have an idea of whether you should treat a specific spot. Think about using bleach on soiled or dirty white fabrics. Depending on the age and fabric of your clothes, you‘ll have to use an appropriate water temperature to wash them. If you don’t, you might shrink the clothes or damage the material.  Wash cottons in cold, as hot water may shrink them. Wash colored fabrics in cold water, as hot water may make them run. Consider washing pre-shrunk or synthetic fabrics in warm water. After washing your clothes, you’ll need to dry them. Drying your clothes appropriately is also important in making sure you properly clean and preserve your new threads. Ultimately, if you dry your clothes improperly, you could damage them.  Always make sure to dry clothes appropriately and follow the care tag on your new clothes. There are a number of materials you should never put in the dryer, including: bathing suits, bras, and certain embellishments like sequins. Hang dry any clothes or materials you have a doubt about.
Question: What is a summary of what this article is about?
Treat any spots you may have identified. Wash your clothes using appropriate temperature water. Dry your clothes.