landre (the youngest of my three sons) loves to paint. he takes after me on this one. his paintings must have purpose and meaning, though - where i prefer impressionistic or even abstract creations. painting is one thing that will drag landre away from the computer. i love to watch him work and think....for this painting he wanted a "still life". so i went out and picked some salmon colored gerbera daisies and put them in a blue grooved ceramic vase. landre was pleased with the subject. he is learning to paint what he sees and not what he thinks he sees. i am still learning that valuable lesson too.
on the way to school today, we talked about perspective. he was complaining about school. he said, "the kids in my class look smart - but they ask the same questions over and over!" and "school is too long! we could learn the stuff in an hour if everyone just stayed focused!"
i tried to give him a pep talk about perspective....i related it to painting - how perspective means everything. i reminded him he might as well be happy about school because he will be going for the next 14 years (at least). and then after school - there's work. i told him adults don't always want to go to work but they have to.
landre looks at me with his big blue eyes and says, "is this supposed to be cheering me up?"
he's a riot!!
and i told him how i always make the best of even bad situations - reminded him of the movie "life is beautiful" where the dad made life in a german holocaust camp as a game for his little 7 year old boy so the boy wouldn't know the horror of the truth. once again, landre says, "Mom - it's not working - just let me be depressed."
today i can't keep smiling thinking of my sweet boy who can't be talked into a good mood and who likes to paint.
life IS beautiful.
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He sounds so wise for his age! He looks like a very good painter too!
I read this and I had to laugh out loud. He cracks me up! Don't we all have days like this? Days when we just need our moment? I think everyone is entitled to that "moment" you just aren't aloud to stay there.
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i love landre's perspective on school being "too long." i will never forget trent in 5th grade coming home and saying "the teacher takes a little bit of stuff to learn....and S-T-R-E-T-C-H-E-S it out over the whole six weeks...and that makes it so boring..." kids...they are so wise.
Every day there are more options for educating gifted kids. This gives me refueled motivation to research the "building a charter school" dream. I WAS this kid. Much love - Amy.
it's a beautiful film that one. hope all is well with you jaki. :)
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