Creativity is one of the terrific benefits of letting your kids entertain themselves and not booking every minute of their time with lessons and organized sports.
Of course, major messes are another outcome of free time, but when I'm working, I just don't have time to care, unless someone's been wounded.
We'll all have to clean up the family room tonight before we can sit down to dinner together, but I think that's worth having gotten to watch Jared create his own pointy-toed elf shoes, which look a lot like the ones shown here (except his are white), out of sheets of printer paper and adhesive tape. They fit him just right and even have paper fasteners. He worked on them as if he had a picture of them already in his head.
Excellent artisanal work for a 5-year-old—or 5¾-year-old, as Jared constantly reminds me.
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Friday, July 06, 2007
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