I CAN'T DO IT.....
With a huge sigh of relief, the school holidays are done and dusted. As usual the library was smoking....kids, parents, toddlers, elderly, middle-agers, seniors, teens...you name them, we had them in. And as usual Youth staff rocked with lots of programs. I am used to the toddlers and small fry....this is my usual area of experience but I jumped at the chance of running a teen craft program. The idea was to create pictures using string and glue. Inspired, I had printed out examples of portraits created using wire...as well as ones using string and ribbon as we were set to use. Now with littlies, they just get in there and create. They think everything they do is fantastic and are eager to colour and paint and glue and cut (especially the cut) anything and everything. I wasn't ready for the 'I can't do this'. After much cajoling, urging, showing, inspiring, motivating and generally telling them yes you can....work began. One parent stayed, a father, and he s...