e found through their study on brain activity that children have active imaginations. It is has been found that "even wide awake children experience theta wave activity, which mature adults primarily experience when their minds hover between being awake and falling asleep" (Jalongo, 2003). This proves that children should be utilizing and enhancing this creative ability from a young as it will be beneficial for them later on in life.
             Jalongo (2003) believes that it is early in a child's life when they should be taught about creative thought and expression as this is the time when their creative thought is bolstered. She continues by implying that "young children are not bothered by inconsistencies, departures from convention and non-literalness" as adults are. Therefore, it is during early childhood when children's creativity should be valued as this is when children's imaginations have no limits. Children do not have a firm understanding of fantasy and reality. Thus, ideas from one sphere can slip into the other causing high levels of creative thought and expression.
             Jalongo (2003) further strengthens the readers' understanding of the extent and ability of children's creative thought through the use of research completed by Csikszentmihalyi (1990, cited in Jalongo, 2003) on children's creative thinking while engaged in play. Csikszentmihalyi (1990) found that when involved in play children have the ability to focus so intensely that they become "lost in their work and time flies by unnoticed". Therefore, Jalongo (2003) makes it obvious to the reader that from a young age children have the necessary skills needed for high creative thinking and expression, however, it is in this time that educators should help children utilize and enhance this. Jalongo (2003) believes that it is unacceptable that a "resource (children's creative thought) so valuable to society and vital to the individual, to be misunderstood, squandered, or...