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4 year olds resistance

From: Pam Signorelli (psignore.us)
Date: Wed Feb 02 2000 - 12:57:34 PST

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    Subject: 4-year-old resistance to making marks on paper

    For what it's worth....
    I had a similar experience when my son was young.
    I wanted him to draw and be creative and he had no interest. It even got to the point where he would cry and not even pick up a tool to draw with anymore.

    I decided to let it go, he had other areas of interest (playing with trucks, legos, bugs).
    In the meantime I had a daughter (4 now) who LOVES to draw and color :-) a bit too much sometimes like the walls all the way up the stairs with crayon...( I now have a special area for her in the playroom where she can draw on the walls)

    And now that my son is 7 he loves to draw dinosaurs and pokemon. He likes the "How To Draw" books, wants them to be perfect.
    But he also had a lot of trouble with his handwriting for the first half of 1st grade! Luckily he has a teacher who has spent a lot of time working with him and it looks pretty good now.
    Just my experience,
    thanks for all the great discussion on the list!!!!

    Pamela Signorelli
    Art Department

    Jefferson High School
    4001 W. 102nd St.
    Bloomington, Mn. 55437
    (612)-844-5000 ext.5398
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