How do you NOT be a doting parent? I can't help it! Not in the moments when she is talking back to me (using words that she undoubtedly heard her own parents say), but definitely in moments when she is trying so hard. The one good thing my daughter has inherited from me is creativity, and she is allowed to cut, paste, paint, or draw any time she wants in our house. I have a huge case of colored paper and craft materials that I have stocked for making teaching materials, and she regularly digs into this and creates whatever her imagination conjures up. Today I caught her in a lip-clenching moment of concentration while she was painting. A child trying really hard and using her imagination...how can you not adore that!
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