Playing with Fire

I have a confession to make. I'm a bad parent by letting our kids play with fire. The kids have recently created their own art form, and it involves candle wax, and though they know only to do it in my presence because it does require the use of fire.

It's actually kind of cool, especially since they came up with it on their own. It started from our birthday dinner, and from there it took off. They basically light a candle, let it burn for a few moments, then blow it out and pour the wax into cold water.

They have a sand table that has recently filled with water from the rain, and the wax cools immediately into whatever shape it takes as it flows into the water. The designs are really neat, and they can literally spend hours doing it while I slave away next to them cooking the dumplings.

You have to love ingenuity and creativity, even if it is a little precarious. It must stem from not watching TV.

Until the next time, thanks for reading.