The original 'Artist's Way' focused on the nurturing of the self. The 'Artist's Way for Parents' focuses both on nurturing the self and nurturing the children in our care.
Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources.
Our internal artist is always our creative child.
No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.
As children we hoard and gloat over words. Words give ownership: we name our world and we claim it...Children trust the power of words.
We have a lot of pressures on children very young. We have ambition. We over-schedule our children. We want them to have soccer lessons and violin lessons... I think children need to have at least an hour of fun a day.
In limits, there is freedom. Creativity thrives within structure. Creating safe havens where our children are allowed to dream, play, make a mess and, yes, clean it up, we teach them respect for themselves and others.