We found a treasure map.

When i was in grade school, my parents gave a pad of paper to draw on. Classes bored me and it was considered a good distraction for a busy mind. I drew pictures, made maps, wrote picture books and generally had a great time. When i think back at those grade school years mostly i remember drawing and creating.

I was telling the above at dinner t’other night when my eight year old got up and went to his room. He returned with three books- 80 pages each. He was in grade two last year and his teacher had given him the books, one at a time, so that he could draw and keep busy without being a distraction to other kids. Just like me. We didn’t even know his teacher had done it.

My son flipped through the pages of the books, remembering the pictures he’d drawn last year. When I was his age i only drew dogs walking on two legs dressed as people. They became characters in stories and adventures. My son mostly draws...