My Child is a Genius: a thread where we document our children's attempts at self-expression

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Pretty! I'd frame that but I'm sappy.

carl agatha, Monday, 17 November 2014 17:21 (nine years ago) link

I did immediately! I'm super sappy :)

*tera, Monday, 17 November 2014 17:50 (nine years ago) link

that's great!

example (crüt), Monday, 17 November 2014 17:52 (nine years ago) link

Thanks! It was a very "Hey I'm a Mommy!" moment for me.

*tera, Monday, 17 November 2014 18:26 (nine years ago) link

ten months pass...

http://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5656/21403384816_a9047769a3.jpg

Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 September 2015 16:09 (eight years ago) link

a couple years old but still

Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 September 2015 16:09 (eight years ago) link

That's pretty dope.

schwantz, Thursday, 17 September 2015 16:12 (eight years ago) link

Hahaha I used to draw almost exactly that way (rockstar/celeb chicks, fat textas) when I was about 10.

I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 06:22 (eight years ago) link

one month passes...

Found this the other day, Veronica gettin some important work done in her room, apparently.

https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5772/22737921349_94e324ea28_n.jpg

Οὖτις, Thursday, 19 November 2015 18:10 (eight years ago) link

lol

Οὖτις, Thursday, 19 November 2015 19:26 (eight years ago) link

one year passes...

it's the little details in my daughter's drawings, like, you know, the evil-looking taco with a monocle

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4E0RnaVMAEaubW.jpg

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 16:27 (seven years ago) link

Hahaha

I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Tuesday, 7 February 2017 21:59 (seven years ago) link

Classic

It's always (sunny successor), Saturday, 11 February 2017 01:21 (seven years ago) link

omg

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 February 2017 05:12 (seven years ago) link

King Taco is not amused.

DJI, Saturday, 11 February 2017 05:25 (seven years ago) link

I want a Fancy Lord Taco Esq tshirt please

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 February 2017 05:27 (seven years ago) link

Baron Von Tacoschmitt

Οὖτις, Saturday, 11 February 2017 05:40 (seven years ago) link

one month passes...

It is really, really great when someone comes up to our kids and says "Can you sing me a song?" and they start singing Ode to Joy in almost-intelligible German.

Rachel Luther Queen (DJP), Friday, 17 March 2017 14:34 (seven years ago) link

also, I need to take a picture of the latest wall drawing that occurred before we confiscated all of the crayons because... it's kind of compelling

Rachel Luther Queen (DJP), Friday, 17 March 2017 14:41 (seven years ago) link

the other day Veronica had a school assignment to make a book about something so she made a book about ... books. The different parts of a book, what books are for, how to take care of books, different kinds of books, etc.

Οὖτις, Friday, 17 March 2017 15:33 (seven years ago) link

lol @ DJP!!!!

Also "I want a Fancy Lord Taco Esq tshirt please" otm.

the world's little sunbeam (in orbit), Friday, 17 March 2017 15:48 (seven years ago) link

Veronica is so meta.

DJI, Friday, 17 March 2017 16:13 (seven years ago) link

a father's proudest day is when his daughter makes her first piece of Star Trek TOS fan art

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7Pgvu7VwAAMiyB.jpg

Οὖτις, Monday, 20 March 2017 17:52 (seven years ago) link

Really cool figure drawing!

DJI, Monday, 20 March 2017 18:28 (seven years ago) link

My two-and-three-quarter-year-old has begun punning and making up jokes. Sample quips:

[We pass some tulips]
"I have tulips, daddy. [points to mouth] On my face!"

[Partner is telling her story of how, before we owned them, our cats were strays rescued from a nearby car park.]
"No mummy - they were rescued in a cat park!"

[She's having toast for breakfast]
Partner: "We need to go to the post office, to post these letters."
Marin: "We could post them in the toast office!"

I mean, okay, that's not "genius", but.

Dysphagia Nutrition Solutions (stevie), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 16:14 (seven years ago) link

sounds pretty genius to me

niels, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 16:53 (seven years ago) link

MSM decided to make her own homework the other evening. Took a blank piece of paper, wrote out the instructions, wrote out some examples of how to do it, then did it, on the other side of the paper. I guess the assigned homework was unsatisfying, like Monday/Tuesday crossword puzzles

Not the real Tombot (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 18:30 (seven years ago) link

two months pass...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/a78vv0csp40rhad/IMG_6502.jpg

to me this is a fairly obvious reworking of picasso's "las meninas" series of paintings, for example

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/6dfp38mepesnpyl/f32674a94700096de2e9b1f76c8827b9.jpg

which of course were in turn versions of the velasquez painting:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/21szybsc0ra0cs7/velazquez.meninas.jpg

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 June 2017 07:22 (six years ago) link

I believe your child is a genius

niels, Monday, 12 June 2017 08:21 (six years ago) link

thank you

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 June 2017 08:41 (six years ago) link

agreed!

It's always (sunny successor), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 13:53 (six years ago) link

to be clear he did not paint the last two

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 13:56 (six years ago) link

oh hahaha I really though he did the second last one. Yay for my BFA.

It's always (sunny successor), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 14:05 (six years ago) link

it's an understandable mistake to make, because my child is a genius

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 15:11 (six years ago) link

three weeks pass...

there's been a bunch of stop motion movies and bread making and art at camp this summer but my favorite thing lately is this perfect band logo she wrote on our kitchen whiteboard

http://i.imgur.com/xmVT3Zl.jpg

El Tomboto, Sunday, 9 July 2017 02:42 (six years ago) link

THE DERPS!!!!

Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Friday, 14 July 2017 02:48 (six years ago) link

also look who's learned how to use powerpoint

http://imgur.com/7o6TcDV

El Tomboto, Monday, 17 July 2017 19:07 (six years ago) link

imgrrrr

http://i.imgur.com/7o6TcDV.png

El Tomboto, Monday, 17 July 2017 19:08 (six years ago) link

four months pass...

Ben made a new track: https://soundcloud.com/user-351496707/unravel

DJI, Friday, 17 November 2017 16:22 (six years ago) link

eleven months pass...

Ben made another one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC-_C8RKf38

DJI, Saturday, 27 October 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link

one year passes...

A couple more Circuit tracks from Ben:
https://soundcloud.com/user-351496707/glide
https://soundcloud.com/user-351496707/glide-part-ii

DJI, Thursday, 12 December 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link

four months pass...

This week Ben made this wild track in Ableton:

https://soundcloud.com/user-351496707/void

There’s enough material in there for like 4-5 tracks!

DJI, Sunday, 26 April 2020 04:11 (three years ago) link

two weeks pass...

And another. This one is really pretty.

https://soundcloud.com/user-351496707/dune

DJI, Thursday, 14 May 2020 00:13 (three years ago) link

two months pass...

And another one. This is a little chillstep/ambient-ish:
https://soundcloud.com/user-351496707/dreamscape

DJI, Thursday, 16 July 2020 20:13 (three years ago) link

three months pass...

Owen has been getting into 80s metal. Here he is trying out the pedal I got him for his birthday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQYl9uqmc0I

DJI, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 03:38 (three years ago) link

Wow! But... think of the neighbours!

Michael Jones, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 12:09 (three years ago) link

i take it the mask is a homage to agata from melt banana

koogs, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 15:10 (three years ago) link

Pulled Angel Dust out of the rack to find it contained the drawing Marin did after I taught her how to sing Epic a couple of years ago pic.twitter.com/cIVOca3YZQ

— Stevie Chick (@stevie_chick) October 20, 2021

Apparently that's me on the left

it's it, what is it

Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 21 October 2021 09:28 (two years ago) link

amazing

b-b-but surely Epic is on The Real Thing

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 21 October 2021 10:12 (two years ago) link

Haha yes of course but I don't have The Real Thing on vinyl!

ok i'll allow it

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 21 October 2021 10:24 (two years ago) link

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When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 24 October 2021 15:19 (two years ago) link


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