--- title: How to Raise Creative Children description: How to raise creative children, why the Pentagon needs a 'digital ROTC,' the danger of school ratings and more. canonical: https://time.com/4526330/how-to-raise-creative-children/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-11T16:00:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:25.963Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How to Raise Creative Children og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4526330/how-to-raise-creative-children/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How to Raise Creative Children twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How to Raise Creative Children by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 11, 2016 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 11, 2016 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**How to raise creative children.**](http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/502958/how-to-raise-creative-children/) By Leah Varjacques at the Atlantic, featuring Adam Grant **2\.** [**To fight the coming cyberwar, the Pentagon should create a ‘digital ROTC.’**](http://www.defensetech.org/2016/10/07/military-needs-get-cool-attract-cyber-experts/) By Richard Sisk in DefenseTech **3\.** [**In real estate, school ratings might fuel discrimination.**](http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/10/10/495944682/race-school-ratings-and-real-estate-a-legal-gray-area) By Anya Kamenetz and Kendra Yoshinaga at NPR **4\.** [**Here’s how machines will augment human creativity.**](https://medium.com/@lux%5Fcapital/the-coming-human-machine-partnership-in-creativity-626ddb6a5f7a#.e6s55wesg) By Sam Arbesman in Medium **5\.** [**Could having fewer children really slow climate change?**](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-23/want-to-slow-climate-change-stop-having-babies-bioethicist-travis-rieder-says) By Eric Roston at Bloomberg News  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4526330/how-to-raise-creative-children/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4526330/how-to-raise-creative-children/"},"headline":"How to Raise Creative Children","datePublished":"2016-10-11T16:00:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:25.963Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4526330/how-to-raise-creative-children/","keywords":["Innovation","Parenting","climate change","real estate","Creativity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4526330/how-to-raise-creative-children/","name":"How to Raise Creative Children"}}]}] ```