How to nurture creativity and maintain the loving and compassionate nature of kids?

I was chatting with my 6 years old nephew 'Lavin' a few days back and we were playing puzzles. I asked him a question, "Lavin, if I've to choose one 'thing' out of the 4 available, how should I go about choosing one when I like them all, but the rule of the game says that I could pick only one"?
After giving it a deep thought [trust me, kids looks even more innocent while making such poses :)], Lavin replied:

"Here is the answer. Lets assume that you've 4 bracelets to choose from and they are of different colors - Red, Green, Blue and Pink and each one has a different shape - rectangle, triangle, square and oval. Now, since I [Lavin] like green color but you don't like green color so lets NOT throw that bracelet away, rather SELL it to someone who likes green and you get the money in return." [I wondered where this reply from Lavin came from?:)].

He continued:

"Now that 3 bracelets are left and you've to choose one, you pick the one with the triangular shape as that'll look good on you, after wearing which you'll also look good and people will like you more and go to disco with you.."

[Ah! that made me think if kids are being taught to like others based on their external appearances only? I again wondered, where did this answer come from?].

But what Lavin suggested for the remaining 2 bracelets was very touching and made me love him more and wished that each one of us could learn this from kids who are so pure.

Lavin said:

"Since you like the remaining 2 bracelets also as they are beautiful, give it to two of your favorite friends and make them happy!!"

This made me wish that more and more grown ups had learnt to share and spread love.

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Please share your thoughts on how could kids creativity be further nurtured and their loving nature be preserved?
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Below are a few inputs from different people on this post that I had originally posted on a network.

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I struggle with this every day as a newbie parent. I see in my daughter's eyes a soul so pure I don't want to contaminate. But I inevitably do.

What I think is most important is what we do and how we act, not only as parents but as human beings in general. That's what our kids will grow with, and that's a HUGE responsibility to bear, believe me.

Spread love and compassion to everybody else and our kids will do the same. I know it's not as easy as it sounds, but that's what I aspire for every day.

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The best thing we as adults could do is to let them be themselves and let them explore the world without our (learned ) inputs, but at the same time protect them from harm.
Observe them and we could learn a lot from them, perseverance the best way to learn is to look at a child try to do something that he is not able to do.
We can provide them with the freedom to explore materials without thinking about the mess that they would create.
For mental creativity , i guess we should listen to the children talk more often and also listen to what we talk in front of them....They seem to absolutely immersed in some activity but they still do know and undertsand what is going on around them.

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The best one can do to nurture the creativity a child has is to allow the child to do the activity that fascinate her/him. Also if we can do our best to add more values to child life by walking the talk that is more than enough for a child to grow into a better person, since we are the role models for the growing child. Also never try to curb the child's natural instincts will definitely help a child to grow into a more refined adult.

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Creativity rules!!