I managed to get both the kids involved in a creative project this weekend, and I'm really proud of myself and them. This is the kind of parent I would like to be 100% of the time (instead of 0.3%).
R wanted new batteries in her toy camera. K had just finished a week of animation classes. We came up with a short film concept (a girl mistreats her soft toys and gets her comeuppance), storyboarded it, and produced the main sequence, which includes an animated section.
R said she'd "literally never seen me so excited".
I don't deny it. It's one of these things that you think would be cool to do, and you feel like you could, should, will do, but in practice it's just too hard to co-ordinate, to idealistic. And yet here we were, doing it together, doing it properly, having a good time, learning together. Awesome.
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