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A parent who is part of the entertainment. A parent to wrestle with, to be tickled by, and to dress up in silly clothes or funny hairstyles! Haven’t you noticed that kids can almost smell the emotional presence of an adult? A kid’s room where parents dare to tread in their own messy glory is the place where lullabies linger on. This is the place to let down your hair and get goofy for a change. Build a blanket fort and serve crumpets with chilled orange tea. Crawl into the closet for a friendly ghost story. Do a spontaneous puppet show behind the chest of drawers. Inspiration is everywhere.
Kids’ rooms are not about external space but about a certain place inside a child who senses vividly who she is. A pilot? A gardener? A dancer? A cop? Isn’t there a kid inside you and me who understands what celebrating life is all about? The spirit of experimentation is how our gifts emerge and grow. Since when did the kid in us depend on corporate marketing of media heroes? When you and I were children, didn’t we create our own superhero themes?
A kid tinkers around with musical instruments, with Mom and Dad’s grown-up tools, and with whatever can be taken apart and put back together in alternative ways. A wooly sock becomes a puppet with button eyes. Big appliance boxes are a miner’s tunnel or a cowboy’s hideout. Swatches of fun fabric are cut, swathed, and tied into place on birthday dolls. Big fat catalogs are the perfect resource for making mosaic pictures out of tiny of pieces.

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