Cutting Yourself Some Slack

This morning as we were wrapping up an ornament that my son made for his teacher, we had this conversation:

Son: You know what I don't get about art?

Me: What?

Son: Some people will look at it and they'll really like it, but then the person who made it will look at it and they won't think it's very good. 

Me: Well, I think that has more to do with the artist than the art.

And then I think he ran off to play with his legos for a few minutes.

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