Bub really is a free thinker

Part of having a strong willed child is being astonished by how well they know their own mind.

I took Bub to the Discovery Museum and we were playing with the sand  pendulum. I thought it would speak to his artistic side and it sure did! He wasn't worried, as I was, about following the instructions. I watched as he flung a wobbling arc with the sand funnel and my inner response was, oh, it's too bad that he's not doing this "right".  But he didn't care about seeing the careful loops spiraling across the slate,  or making a pattern. He would stop the funnel and swing it in a different arc, and he even shook out blobs of sand and wiggled it to "draw" with the sand.

This 5 year old is teaching me about the creative mind and having a truly free spirit . I am amazed by his process and mostly by his freedom from doing what is expected. I envy him! Yes, it makes life hard when he doesn't understand why doing exactly what he's told is important. But that might be a worthy struggle in light of true creativity and great art.  I have always wished that of any talent, I could be an artist. I think I have my moments. But maybe my masterpiece is this little life I made and get to foster.