My mom taught me a saying:

“What can you tell me about this?”

I use it all the time. It’s great because it asks a child what they are drawing without saying “What is that?” It also doesn’t make you guess. “Nice….flower?”

And I write it down on the work.

Ero’s art is fairly simple in concept at age 2, mostly drawing people he knows. Lou’s on the other hand are increasing in creativity.

I won’t go into the 7 pages she drew and then dictated to me, but here’s a glimpse.

“A sun with a smiley face. At night time it turns into a gas. In morning it pops open.”

“Then the volcano comes and it’s all his sisters.”

“And this is the size of when he was born.” – She’s still talking about the sun.

This blows my freaking mind. How do you get a kid to fit into society yet retain this creativity? I am not sure, but I am going try.