Mama Drama


Things have changed…already


by min, who has big kids

It doesn’t seem so long ago that my kids were little. They were pretty easily entertained as children, at least Reggie was. You could give him a stick or a piece of wrapping paper and he’d be entertained for hours.

I remember that I could give him a couple of craft sticks and some glue and he’d glue them into a shape roughly resembling an airplane and he’d be perfectly happy manually zooming it around in the air.

Apparently, this isn’t good enough anymore. Kids have to have powered craft sticks.

That link is small and difficult to read, but it is step-by-step instructions on how to glue houseflies to the craft sticks in order to have a self powered toy airplane.

I can’t wait until Connor’s old enough to try that. I’m sure Margaret will be happy to help him catch the flies.

When my daughter Violet was little, she was more difficult to entertain. She would go through fifty different toys in twenty minutes and always wanted something new.

Until she discovered art.

Then all she needed was a pencil or a paint brush (no paper necessary…she always found her own canvases…my walls are still a testimony to this).

When she hit middle school age she began helping out at school carnivals and Girl Scout events as a face painter. She and other girls her age would paint shamrocks and Batman symbol’s on the cheeks of smaller kids and everyone was happy.

Apparently face painting isn’t so simple anymore.

Sure that guy’s creations are elaborate…

…but can he do a Yin/Yang symbol?

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Mindy Sterba