Aidan created this over the weekend for my office - my new department does an art thing for the staff's kids. It's pretty adorable. I tried to encourage him to use a bit more of the canvas, but he insisted he was done.
It's difficult, of course, to convince him he wants to sit down and concentrate on this type of thing; he'd much rather sit down and concentrate on playing games of various sorts. I got him to stop grumbling by just saying "Okay, today's the only day you have that you have time to do this before it has to be turned in. Do you actually want to do it?" He said yes, settled down, and worked on it. Which I'm happy about on multiple levels - partly because it's awesome to have a kid you can reason with, and partly because he actually chose to do something besides playing, which - some days - is a really nice change.
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