At the same time, I thank my lucky stars that no kindergarten teacher ever gave me such an assignment. I’m convinced that I have what almost amounts to an art deficit (at least it could reasonably be construed as such), and my work would certainly have been THE WORST ever submitted by any mom.

I could have written a nice little poem about him, though!

=)

Separating my own ability and learning from my boys’ is something I still have to work on (though usually I’m more in Jennie’s “book and suggestions” camp!)

I’m sure everyone has a story of when they went a little hard in “enthusiasm”, and lived to question themselves about it.

Thanks for the lovely post (hope we get to see a photo of your masterpiece!)

Seriously, there aren’t words…

So now I let my kids do everything. And I just sit back and watch (“watch” might be too strong a word. More like, “sit in my chair reading a book and shouting suggestions when I think about it.” ) And it is a beautiful thing.

I’m laughing beside you.

On the other hand, I can get lazy. I might have given the toddler the paint and said, “Here draw your sibling”. That would have been interesting.

Speaking from personal experience, we usually justify these types of things with the excuse of loving and serving. You put it this way, “I’d turned it into competition to prove that I was the best, not to paint a picture of my child.” How great that you recognized it and so, will be vigilant about it in the future. This is really the hard part of any type of service (parenting, teaching, friendshipping, marriage) – selflessness.