Trying to fit in fitness as a mom is tough. Pre-parenthood, I brisk walked about 5 times a week and followed a few workouts online when I felt like it. Now, I'm lucky if I can fit in a 10-minute workout a day during the week. So now, most of my weekly workout time is clocked on Saturday and Sunday.
We're all supposed to get a minimum of 150 minutes of exercise. At the start of Saturday, I only had 57. Now, I've clocked 224. Yeah, baby!No gym. No fancy equipment (other than this watch that my husband bought cause I'm far too cheap to buy such fancies, but I do love it). It's possible.
A friend of mine asked my advice on teaching her art-loving young child to draw using how-to guides/formulas and my gut response was Nooooo! I couldn't explain why, but I've been thinking about it and here's why I wouldn't try to teach a young child how to draw...
1. Learning the so-called rules for drawing often overpowers the most important thing about drawing - the ability to see.2. The implication of teaching someone how to draw is that there is a right way and a wrong way to draw. If that was the case, all art would look the same.3. An artist will learn through the best possible means - exploration - there's no need to assist them, only to equip them.3. Formulas for drawing often follow a left-brained way of thinking and it encourages copying images like a camera. But we have cameras, so...?! 4. Left-brained formulas for drawing are downers for predominantly right-brained creators and can hamper a growing love for art.5. Drawing formulas assume perfect proportions (like symmetrical faces) when nothing is perfect.5. There's a magic to a line that is drawn freely, without hesitation, and it's easily lost when drawing according to the rules.
