I started work on a new painting today — “The Blind Leading The Blind” — you can get a deeper explanation and read more about it on I Need More Life if you’d like…
Yesterday Nefarious and I and Caitlin and her dad went to High Park… I think he may have been worried a bit by Nefarious’s climbing… She can do some pretty impressive stuff for a tiny person — in that picture she’s about ten feet off the ground, and got there after transferring across three or four structures which required some serious acrobatics. I definitely agree with the “freerange kids” theory… The paranoid over-protection we tend to do with kids in the Modern West leaves stunted adults with no sense of responsibility or maturity — to say nothing of it being pretty boring.
Nefarious is working on a new painting as well, a couple of feathered flying unicorn-slash-pegasus type creatures in a magical landscape… It got a bit muddied up in the painting stage because she wanted to do it without any help at all, but I think once she re-lines it, it’ll be well defined again.
Other than that, I think I’m moving my sites from Dreamhost‘s shared server space to Mediatemple‘s grid service, because even though I’ve been really happy with them on the whole, I don’t like the inability to handle spikes of traffic, and even my current sites consume a fair load (you’d be amazed how many people want to know what looks like a duck) to say nothing of future work.
Oh! Almost forgot — tonight I start reading Nefarious Alice In Wonderland, her first “real” book… Definitely looking forward to that.
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yay for freerange children!
I live with my two brothers (11 and 13) and my mom…and whille my mom agrees with free-range children theoretically, she has to have her arm twisted to allow them to say, ride thier bikes to school.
This is the same mom that I had..when I was there age I used to walk down the railroad tracks through a forest 3 miles to school (sometimes), and when I was 10 I used to have drag (literally) my 5 year old sister on our walks to school by ourself…now she’s gotton so protective and scared. It’s bad for the kids. So I try and cancel it out whenever I can. Good on you for allowing your kid the right to fall off the monkey bars every so often: we all did it!
my favorite book as a child ! i have my copy, a gift for my nineth birthday, on the shelf waiting to be read to sidney….maybe we’ll do that this summer
what a great first book to leap into with your girl.
Kids definitely need the freedom to figure out what works and what doesn’t for themselves. I love reading about all the fun stuff you and Ari do. :)
I’m so glad to have been brought up ‘free-range’, and not to have grown up in a city. I’m a full time nanny now for a 2 and a 3 year old boy in London, and its so, so different.
I tried letting our kids free range yesterday. My wife ended up almost killing me. *true Story*
I completely agree with free-range kids :)
What kind of people do we presume to raise, if we don’t let them make their own mistakes (bumps and bruises included) along the path of life? I grew up in a moderate-sized city, then in the country. And the odd thing is, I had more freedom in the city! My mom let us run all over town – be home when the street lights come on. Move to the country, and my Dad doesn’t let me out past 6pm…
Alice in Wonderland! Yay! I’m having an Alice themed sleeve done so that I can read the book to my future children and show them the illustrations on Daddy’s arm :)
you do take beautiful pictures of your daughter :]
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