Selina S. Lee

I’ve been thinking a lot about teaching more art at home. N8 likes to draw and paint and he’s usually making some kind of craft on his own. He finds recycling materials around the house and likes to glue and tape things to build toys. But as you can imagine, it usually becomes a pile of another clutter or end up back in the recycling bin. So I thought it would be more fun if I can invest little bit more time on my part to prepare a short lesson or session for him to do and I can join in on the fun. I know teaching art at home is not as easy as it sounds. If you’re are like me, I prefer to skip the mess and cleaning part too but there are other simple “clean” ways to do more art with your kids. Here is a list of best art education blog resouces on TINKERLAB, a creative parenting blog. This is a really good list of resources as it’s organized by age (preschool, elementary, middle and high school). I am smitten by DEEP SPACE SPARKLE site for e-classes on teaching art and many many ideas on lessons. If you are interested in teaching more art at home, don’t forget to check it out!

Picture above is self-portraits by N8 when he was 5 (left) and 7 (right). I think I should ask him to draw a self-portrait every year to see how he expresses/portrays himself in his drawings!

I don’t know who wrote this but I love this because I’ve been feeling the same way waking up at 5am in the morning. I’ve recently been assigned to a project at work that requires me to attend meetings with other people in all parts of the world. I was worried that I might not be able to get up that early, let alone be awake enough to participate. As you can imagine, I tried going to bed much earlier than usual and had my alarm setup for every 15min leading up to the meeting time. For some reason, I woke up 30 mins before the meeting feeling really great. I remember reading somewhere that if you wake up at the right time of your sleep cycle (like at your lightest sleep), you actually wake up feeling refreshed and well rested. So this 5am meetings are only temporary but I’m serious about changing my sleep cycle so I can start my day early and feel great at the same time. Here are some tools that I’ve been looking into to help me achieve that.

So would I be able to truly convert to a morning person? If you start seeing new posts at around 5am I guess that will answer that question.