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I have missed updating here at Glue Sky. So I am turning my ceramics blog into a parenting blog too.

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Welcome

Hello! We currently not updating Glue Sky anymore, but so many of you continue to find us. Usually late at night, so very tired, from your little all night nursers… So we are still here, for anyone who needs our information. Thank you for your letters and thoughts, and good luck to you on your journey!

- Vanessa

The Kids Creative Flow

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Media

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Roundup – TV, Empathy

Weekly Roundup lists studies and info I find important to life as a parent. Plus one artist.

Peeling and Cutting Carrots

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Baking Pumpkin Bread

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The Thinking Behind the Drawing

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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.

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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.

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

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

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“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.

In the mood for a change…

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I’m in the mood for a change. So please bear with me while I work on the site for a week. I’ll be fixing it up on the main site, so you’ll see changes as I work on it.

I want the site to be a bit simpler, less crowded and less commercial. I hope you’ll like it. I’m not sure where it’s going yet.

Nature Trick or Treat

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This morning Lou started getting Ero dressed. They were holding their Halloween pumpkins. She told me we were all going trick or treating in nature.

We got dressed and began “trick or treating.”

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Nature had many treats.

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Then we found the motherload. A beautiful spruce tree.

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The leaves got dumped to make more room for spruce cones. Their excitement was like finding a house handing out full sized candy bars on Halloween.

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Good times.