Day 243 - The Bad Book

I've now discovered how to get in trouble with my child's 1st grade teacher, you let her draw whatever she wants at home.  

Lydia loves to draw and has always drawn what she sees and knows.  Sometimes that's real life, sometimes it's what she has been imagining.This is a picture of us at the swimming pool, complete with Teagan wearing goggles as she swims underwater and the umbrella at the side of the pool. 

So, true to form, Lydia has been drawing her world, and her world right now is all about pirates.  She wants to be a pirate for Halloween, and her new favorite show is Jake and the Neverland Pirates. We talk about Pirates a lot at our house. In order to be a very good pirate, she decided to create a book about being a pirate, a manual so to speak, which she named, The Bad Book (she's six, and her writing abilities are limited).  When she finishes work early at school she has been given the option of reading quietly or drawing. And she really likes to draw. Apparently working on The Bad Book at school is not a good idea, since pirates need things like hooks, swords and cannonballs. It also didn't help that she had drawn a haunted house, and our nanny as a vampire at school too.

Result? I got a call home from the teacher who was worried about the dark imagery of Lydia'a drawings. I talked to Lydia, who said she would draw things were less scary while at school. So today she came home with this drawing she had created just for the teacher.