Get your kids involved in your creativity.

We often think of the artist as one who inhabits the studio all day creating paintings. Maybe an image comes to mind of a writer by the seaside, staring out the beach house window in deep reverie over her next title. But the artistic life is for everyone, not just those recognized, well-paid artists. An artistic life is led as one looks at life through a different lens. Everything we do is an art form. In order to live artfully, we must fight against culture norms of productivity, efficiency and consumerism.

Living artistically can be seen as a counter to efficiency but it does not have to be if it is thoughtfully and meticulously carried out.

Any time that you bring beauty to someone, you are caring for them and that care is artistry.

Parenting can be artistic.
Marriage can be art.

Relationships take great care and time to nurture. As you pour beauty into the places that you live around in life, you are living an artistic life. There is really no facet of life in which art can be absent. But it is up to the one steering that life to bring art into it.

Remember: As you learn to be artistic in the ordinary, your children will begin to see the value of artistry.

Try this: Think of a task that needs to be done. If it is time to clean out a closet, put your child in charge of a pile. Help sort through things you do not want and draw your children into it. Make it a game. See how creative you can make it. Set it up as an art project for the children. Build a tower with all the old shoe-boxes you have. Or have them help you fold the laundry. Fold each shirt in a different way and stack them according to color, person or texture.

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