Family Fun Day

I volunteered at Family Fun Day at the Greater Denton Arts Council (GDAC) this weekend. It reminded me how much fun it is to teach, I mean just simply teach, the actual act without all the baggage. We were teaching, well facilitating, elementary age children (and their parents) which is not my usual student, so that in itself was fun. And then just helping out in a creative endeavor is fun. I couldn't help thinking how much easier the classroom would be if every student's parent was with them, but then again, that could open a whole new Pandora's Box. It was really interesting to see the different parenting styles, the ones who sat their kid down and read the paper while the child worked, the ones who made art along with their child, the ones who made art FOR their child and every shade of gray imaginable inbetween those three extremes.