Q :My six-year-old goes bananas when I get rid of any art or schoolwork, so I’ve resorted to recycling stuff behind his back. We have many more years of school – and stuff ahead. Help! Tiffany S
Finding this in my purging basket, I laughed and agree it is important for kids to be a part of the purging process. That’s how they learn that just because you put effort into something doesn’t mean that you must hold on to it forever. I would suggest creating distance between projects like having the child create an art folder or binder and when its full go through it with your child. Another idea is to hang artwork on the fridge and when the next “master” piece comes home, discuss with your child what to do with the current art.
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Such a dilemma – maybe wait until the child has improved enough not to want to look at it
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It is a parental dilemma. I do however like the idea of nother idea of when thenext “master” piece comes home, discuss with your child what to do with the current art. Both parties can learn a lot in those discussions.
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Good idea, but does not work for everyone. I have halloween masterpiece hanging an last week when I asked my child to remove it as halloween is past months ago, she explained that the artwork in different angle and which is in summery the art work is not only related to halloween it is related to many thing and some kind of timeless art. Actually my little one purges her creation sometime what she think is not important anymore gift it to me then it is difficult for me to dipose the gift from my little one.
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I agree everything doesn’t work for everyone that what’s makes us each unique. Thank you for sharing your story, sounds like you may have a artist or museum docent on your hands. Thanks for reading.
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