edicehouse
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Since the start of this year I have not had more than 1 day off in a row. Several weeks have been 7 days a week. So the bash was not a priority to me. I had often tried the trivia, and those things. However I try to be good about having my kids (or at least one) enter the youth contest.
First of all it gives your kid (or grandkid, nephew, niece, neighbor) a great memory of you.
This year my best friends daughter made her first pen. His kids have called me Uncle Ed since they could talk. She is 14 (as she said almost 15), and is sort of a diva. So getting some dust on her did good for her. She had some issues, that were not of her doing, and not going to elaborate on them, so her doing something like that was good for her.
The excitement of them making something like that is a unique experience. The sight of their face lighting up is just amazing. I swear I have NEVER shown someone how to make a pen, or made one with them, that they were not proud and showed it off to everyone they could.
Most of us didn't make our first pen until we were older (at least I am assuming that). Think of the joy and pride you had making your first one. . . Now just picture experiencing that at 10 years old.
Kaitlyn (14 year old) she finished 2nd in the teen contest, and she uses the pen she made daily, if she doesn't need to, she finds a reason. She skipped, when I took her home, to her mother to show her the finished pen.
Marley (9 years old) had to show her grandparents, and Uncle, and so on. She got excited when she found out she could bring it to school to show her teacher and friends. She was all kinds of thrilled showing her art teacher.
These are some of the reasons that the youth turners contest are the most important of the Bash.
Please let me know your thoughts on this....
First of all it gives your kid (or grandkid, nephew, niece, neighbor) a great memory of you.
This year my best friends daughter made her first pen. His kids have called me Uncle Ed since they could talk. She is 14 (as she said almost 15), and is sort of a diva. So getting some dust on her did good for her. She had some issues, that were not of her doing, and not going to elaborate on them, so her doing something like that was good for her.
The excitement of them making something like that is a unique experience. The sight of their face lighting up is just amazing. I swear I have NEVER shown someone how to make a pen, or made one with them, that they were not proud and showed it off to everyone they could.
Most of us didn't make our first pen until we were older (at least I am assuming that). Think of the joy and pride you had making your first one. . . Now just picture experiencing that at 10 years old.
Kaitlyn (14 year old) she finished 2nd in the teen contest, and she uses the pen she made daily, if she doesn't need to, she finds a reason. She skipped, when I took her home, to her mother to show her the finished pen.
Marley (9 years old) had to show her grandparents, and Uncle, and so on. She got excited when she found out she could bring it to school to show her teacher and friends. She was all kinds of thrilled showing her art teacher.
These are some of the reasons that the youth turners contest are the most important of the Bash.
Please let me know your thoughts on this....