For some reason this year seems to be the year of writing in our house.  EJ and ED have both decided that they want to improve their writing and be able to express themselves well.  I have been feeling the same urge myself, so I joined a writers' email discussion group and I've been working on ideas and stories (a little) more these days.  I think this modelling will benefit all of us.  We've always heard that to raise a reader you need to BE a reader, I think the same can be true of almost any passion.  True, just because a parent writes a book (or music or paints a picture, or.....) doesn't mean the child will.  I also trust that my children will do things that I have never done. 

Still, I think it is good to for our children to see us going after something, even if a bit apprehensively.  And I think it will make them feel more at home with the idea of writing or painting or whatever.  Maybe all we are modelling is curiousity and courage.

Just pondering.

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