Are you into face painting? Personally I’m not a big fan. My kids though, they love it!
As a kid I might have still liked face painting, but this faded away as I grew older. Bottom line is that right now I’m not too motivated to start experimenting with face painting on my kids. But my kids love it. So what am I to do?
For one I can let grandma take charge. But this week I discovered – by chance – a whole new approach …
Convinced by the strong arguments of my kids (“We want YOU to paint our faces! Now!”) and after some awesome negotiation from my side (“OK but only once”), I did some face painting for kids the day before. And as I’m a very organized person, the face painting tools were still lying around the next day. I guess Victoria spotted them and had a plan ….
I got a bit suspicious the moment I realized that it had been quiet in the house already for a while. But I did not have to worry for too long. In no time I was attacked by a roaring tiger who apparently was in his turn chased by a raging butterfly. Lukas and Elena were chasing each other around the house and screaming their lungs out of joy. In the meantime Victoria (5 years) was also trying to get my attention to the fact that she did the face painting all by herself! And yeah, the quiet time was over.
What happened is that Victoria found the face painting tools and since she absolutely loves painting and drawing, she convinced her siblings to participate in a face painting exercise. And I think the result is great. Although the butterfly on Elena’s face makes her look a bit scary, I think that tiger Lukas looks awesome!
So the lessons learned today:
- If there’s an activity my kids love they will to find a way to do it.
- As long as there is no danger, I might as well embrace the fact that they’ll have a veto on the activity they like/want and I should try to make it as painless as possible for me. After all we do want to raise our kids to be their own self and not copycats of us.
As of today Victoria is my newly recruited face paint expert, who will be in charge of all the face painting jobs in our house. And you know what? She LOVES her new position!
