august 27th - 8pm

in they walk a family of 5. yes 5. a mom, a dad, the oldest is a boy the middle is a girl and the youngest is a girl. so they are selecting their pieces and the mom questions the dad..."what are you going to paint?" the dad reply's " i am going to help." you would think his youngest must be about 3 if she needs help, well nope she is 8. and now she has selected a $20 mermaid to paint to which both parents say no, because it is too expensive. so the older siblings pick $15 pieces and the 8 year old girl picks an $8 unicorn. the mom picks out a mug and so does the son. and they begin choosing colors...i get them thier paints and the children begin painting...no more then 2 minutes goes by then the mom decided she is going to help the oldest son who is atleast 12 and puts her mug back and the dad takes the unicorn out of the youngests hands, by force and proceeds to paint the entire thing (he did ask where she wanted what color) it was very sad to see the little girl continually looking my way all she wanted to do was paint. so in the end the middle child is the only one who painted her own piece and the other two have ABSOLUTELY NO SELF ESTEEM! it was so sad to hear the son say im just not very good at art, it will prob turn out ok. (the saddest part was he didnt even really paint any of it anyway) so needless to say i am not a parent yet, but if i become one someday i will let my kids do their own art.
melissa