We've been having this reading battle with my daughter for...well...longer than this blog has been in existence. I've decided that, since the summer's still upon us, maybe I won't do the conventional push for reading. Maybe we'll do something that interests her, see if we can foster some creativity.I've been trying to encourage my daughter's love of art. She's always said she wanted to be an artist, though she doesn't really know anything about art. We used to have some art books around the house to help her with drawing, but somewhere along the lines they disappeared right along with my sock knitting book and some other things. She really didn't have much opportunity to study art, nor a lot of artists. The best I could do was set her to drawing and let her go.
Just the other day Marrok decided he was going to sit down with her. He was going to work on sculpting, so he wanted to give her a chance to do it with him. He talked to her about clay, about art, and everything else. They both worked at making their own sculptures. Corde made up two different pieces, one with some help, the other without nearly as much.
When they were done they baked the clay in the oven. She was so excited about her own piece of art turning into something beautiful. It wasn't enough that she thought it was good, she was just so proud of herself! I feel bad that she's not going to get a chance to display them in her room until we can get a shelf high enough that her brothers can't access. She's so proud of her work.After that she's decided the only thing in the world she's interested in is art. It's going to be quite the challenge to help her find other interests, but she's interested in something! I hope this is just going to be the first start to many more interests of all varieties. My child with no real imagination or drive to be interested in something has found something she loves so much that she's actually asking to read about it! It's exciting to see that impact and that change happening!
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