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oh, also, they are SO not afraid to just spend time making colours and shapes and you ask them what that is and they just say "i don't know" and carry on https://t.co/Cq7d6U5IRe
when kids make art, it's so obviously about whatever's just on their minds i think that would be good for me as an adult too. when im making art? it's just about whatever's on my mind. no fancy themes. just straightforwardly whatever's on my mind https://t.co/rih8KV9wPk
and that's exactly how i learned to paint too. i just needed to spend hours putting colour on paper till i got it. how the paint dried, how to even get the paint on the brush https://t.co/2qdBy0ff0w
it's so so tempting as an adult to rush kids into "representational play" and art. and it's such an adult projected anxiety but i didn't need that. i enjoyed as an adult just painting colours on paper, day after day eventually, i naturally, myself wanted to form shapes, but
it was after a lot of listening we rush kids into speaking https://t.co/lzcwM41Brr
i think this is why people listen. it does something to listen, and to feel part of the wider world, and to feel an allegiance to it. to instinctively begin moving in concert with it, and weighing its considerations in into yours this is an embodied ethics
> Adults often try to speak a new language a lot before they’ve even heard it much. > Young children hear and understand a lot of language before they speak it much. They focus on what they’re experiencing rather than the language they’re learning. https://t.co/2peZJYlEGv
> Young children hear and understand a lot of language before they speak it much. They focus on what they’re experiencing rather than the language they’re learning. They pick up languages without study and only later do things like read and learn about grammar. > Adults often… https://t.co/rwWSVd7hsd
