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i woke up with a thought banging around my head like a stone in a tin can.

how do parents set their kids on their creative journeys?

as a 7-year old, I remember watching my brother who was 10 pick up make his first wood carving at a class. by 13 he had a table saw and a subscription to a woodworking magazine. his shop grew to a include a router for the rounded table corners, a lathe for making wooden bowls.

my parents didn't seem to push him in that direction at all. it just took the first wood carving class.
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Laeserin 5mo ago

Just expose them to stuff and they grab onto whatever they have a talent for.

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Laeserin 5mo ago

Mostly, we have a large extended family and are active in the local community and in church, so we just know lots of people with all sorts of jobs and hobbies, so the kids naturally sort of wandered around and stumbled upon stuff, and we helped them do more of whatever they were wanting to do.