“Isaac!” I called from downstairs. He did not come. I went upstairs expecting to find him in his grandmother’s room watching cartoons on her computer again. He was not there.
I walked into his room and found him using the bottom step of the bunk beds as a worktable as he carefully poked, prodded, cut, molded and pinched some soft clay into shape.
There was something we were supposed to do, but this is not something to interrupt. In this house we do not interrupt drawing, painting, Lego-building, reading, writing, paper-cutting, block tower building, clay sculpting, or quiet sibling conversations. We do not interrupt sandbox digging, birdwatching, or talking to the cat and dog.
Because those things are the very important work of childhood.
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People don’t realize that the work of a child is play. It’s not just a passtime, it IS how they learn about the world around them and it IS their work. Parents today think they have to manage every minute of a child’s day, and that is so wrong on all sides. Too much managing makes a child dependent on others to amuse them, and later they depend on others to tell them what to do. They can’t think of things on their own if they are managed all the time when they’re young.