My Child is a Genius: a thread where we document our children's attempts at self-expression

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the mummies are thinking "what if this happened?" I think the rest are diagrams of the mummification process

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 16:15 (eleven years ago)

thats so great

we've all been kids from time to time (sunny successor), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:30 (eleven years ago)

Love this board!!!

*tera, Thursday, 17 July 2014 04:55 (eleven years ago)

Thread I mean...

*tera, Friday, 18 July 2014 10:24 (eleven years ago)

good knowledge of madagascar, I like seeing geographical nous

ogmor, Friday, 18 July 2014 11:00 (eleven years ago)

Ok, ok, I helped her a bit...

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3896/14608131216_b255dd891f_c.jpg

Michael Jones, Friday, 18 July 2014 13:56 (eleven years ago)

It doesn't fit with the thread's brief of "self-expression" either. Except later when she just drew bunnies all over the newspaper.

Michael Jones, Friday, 18 July 2014 13:56 (eleven years ago)

Oooh, I've got one of these where Abba really surprised me recently by copying the design on my tshirt, but it doesn't turn up well in photographs because it's thin pink crayon on white paper. I'll have to remember to try and scan it in this weekend.

how's life, Friday, 18 July 2014 14:03 (eleven years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/drawingpad_zps67a72864.jpg

little guy is taking some stabs at spelling ("squeak" and "violin"!) and he likes to draw things like bugs and pigs pouring milk into cups.

LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Monday, 21 July 2014 17:24 (eleven years ago)

wow that is some awesomely neat lettering. great drawings too.

smoochy-woochy touchy-wouchy, (sunny successor), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 15:40 (eleven years ago)

three months pass...

http://https%3A//farm4.staticflickr.com/3899/15086039009_237fc5a748_o.jpg

*tera, Monday, 17 November 2014 15:48 (eleven years ago)

Pretty! I'd frame that but I'm sappy.

carl agatha, Monday, 17 November 2014 17:21 (eleven years ago)

I did immediately! I'm super sappy :)

*tera, Monday, 17 November 2014 17:50 (eleven years ago)

that's great!

example (crüt), Monday, 17 November 2014 17:52 (eleven years ago)

Thanks! It was a very "Hey I'm a Mommy!" moment for me.

*tera, Monday, 17 November 2014 18:26 (eleven years ago)

ten months pass...

http://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5656/21403384816_a9047769a3.jpg

Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 September 2015 16:09 (ten years ago)

a couple years old but still

Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 September 2015 16:09 (ten years ago)

That's pretty dope.

schwantz, Thursday, 17 September 2015 16:12 (ten years ago)

Hahaha I used to draw almost exactly that way (rockstar/celeb chicks, fat textas) when I was about 10.

I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 06:22 (ten years ago)

one month passes...

Found this the other day, Veronica gettin some important work done in her room, apparently.

https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5772/22737921349_94e324ea28_n.jpg

Οὖτις, Thursday, 19 November 2015 18:10 (ten years ago)

http://image.slidesharecdn.com/bco5652formattedv3-140612122509-phpapp02/95/vmworld-2013-three-quirky-ways-to-simplify-dr-with-vmware-site-recovery-manager-21-638.jpg

i made a scope for my laser musket out of some (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 November 2015 19:21 (ten years ago)

lol

Οὖτις, Thursday, 19 November 2015 19:26 (ten years ago)

one year passes...

it's the little details in my daughter's drawings, like, you know, the evil-looking taco with a monocle

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4E0RnaVMAEaubW.jpg

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 16:27 (nine years ago)

Hahaha

I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Tuesday, 7 February 2017 21:59 (nine years ago)

Classic

It's always (sunny successor), Saturday, 11 February 2017 01:21 (nine years ago)

omg

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 February 2017 05:12 (nine years ago)

King Taco is not amused.

DJI, Saturday, 11 February 2017 05:25 (nine years ago)

I want a Fancy Lord Taco Esq tshirt please

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 February 2017 05:27 (nine years ago)

Baron Von Tacoschmitt

Οὖτις, Saturday, 11 February 2017 05:40 (nine years ago)

one month passes...

It is really, really great when someone comes up to our kids and says "Can you sing me a song?" and they start singing Ode to Joy in almost-intelligible German.

Rachel Luther Queen (DJP), Friday, 17 March 2017 14:34 (nine years ago)

also, I need to take a picture of the latest wall drawing that occurred before we confiscated all of the crayons because... it's kind of compelling

Rachel Luther Queen (DJP), Friday, 17 March 2017 14:41 (nine years ago)

the other day Veronica had a school assignment to make a book about something so she made a book about ... books. The different parts of a book, what books are for, how to take care of books, different kinds of books, etc.

Οὖτις, Friday, 17 March 2017 15:33 (nine years ago)

lol @ DJP!!!!

Also "I want a Fancy Lord Taco Esq tshirt please" otm.

the world's little sunbeam (in orbit), Friday, 17 March 2017 15:48 (nine years ago)

Veronica is so meta.

DJI, Friday, 17 March 2017 16:13 (nine years ago)

a father's proudest day is when his daughter makes her first piece of Star Trek TOS fan art

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7Pgvu7VwAAMiyB.jpg

Οὖτις, Monday, 20 March 2017 17:52 (nine years ago)

Really cool figure drawing!

DJI, Monday, 20 March 2017 18:28 (nine years ago)

My two-and-three-quarter-year-old has begun punning and making up jokes. Sample quips:

[We pass some tulips]
"I have tulips, daddy. [points to mouth] On my face!"

[Partner is telling her story of how, before we owned them, our cats were strays rescued from a nearby car park.]
"No mummy - they were rescued in a cat park!"

[She's having toast for breakfast]
Partner: "We need to go to the post office, to post these letters."
Marin: "We could post them in the toast office!"

I mean, okay, that's not "genius", but.

Dysphagia Nutrition Solutions (stevie), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 16:14 (nine years ago)

sounds pretty genius to me

niels, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 16:53 (nine years ago)

MSM decided to make her own homework the other evening. Took a blank piece of paper, wrote out the instructions, wrote out some examples of how to do it, then did it, on the other side of the paper. I guess the assigned homework was unsatisfying, like Monday/Tuesday crossword puzzles

Not the real Tombot (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 18:30 (nine years ago)

two months pass...

https://d2ppvlu71ri8gs.cloudfront.net/items/3o2S142B3A3r0U0u072l/Screen%20Shot%202017-06-06%20at%2013.00.15.png

eat your heart out, cy twombly

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 11:02 (eight years ago)

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/a78vv0csp40rhad/IMG_6502.jpg

to me this is a fairly obvious reworking of picasso's "las meninas" series of paintings, for example

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/6dfp38mepesnpyl/f32674a94700096de2e9b1f76c8827b9.jpg

which of course were in turn versions of the velasquez painting:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/21szybsc0ra0cs7/velazquez.meninas.jpg

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 June 2017 07:22 (eight years ago)

I believe your child is a genius

niels, Monday, 12 June 2017 08:21 (eight years ago)

thank you

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 June 2017 08:41 (eight years ago)

agreed!

It's always (sunny successor), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 13:53 (eight years ago)

to be clear he did not paint the last two

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 13:56 (eight years ago)

oh hahaha I really though he did the second last one. Yay for my BFA.

It's always (sunny successor), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 14:05 (eight years ago)

it's an understandable mistake to make, because my child is a genius

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 15:11 (eight years ago)

three weeks pass...

there's been a bunch of stop motion movies and bread making and art at camp this summer but my favorite thing lately is this perfect band logo she wrote on our kitchen whiteboard

http://i.imgur.com/xmVT3Zl.jpg

El Tomboto, Sunday, 9 July 2017 02:42 (eight years ago)

THE DERPS!!!!

Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Friday, 14 July 2017 02:48 (eight years ago)

Kim - that is so great! I wish I could get my boys to play together. They are a bit too arguey these days to make that happen.

DJI, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 18:57 (five years ago)

Ha! Yes, it’s a real struggle. They both like very different things and were just playing over each other and, just tired of the racket I said either play something together, or take turns, and that little magic moment was the result. Time will tell if it ever happens again.

Owen has some real skills!

Kim, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 19:13 (five years ago)

good kids all round

G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 21:18 (five years ago)

four weeks pass...

Ben made another one of his evolving videogame-soundtracky pieces:
https://soundcloud.com/user-351496707/glass

DJI, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 15:26 (five years ago)

Aw, nice!

Michael Jones, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 16:51 (five years ago)

Beautiful! Love the banger buildup at a minute-and-a-half

Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 14 April 2021 09:33 (five years ago)

my son just told me a great name for a locksmith would be “sure lock homes”

he swears he made this up himself

Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 24 April 2021 15:54 (five years ago)

Ok now he just made a trance banger (with chill coda): https://soundcloud.com/user-351496707/rain

DJI, Wednesday, 28 April 2021 00:50 (five years ago)

three months pass...

Ok, not my kid, but our bass player’s daughter wrote a great modern protest song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO_b2iZxt08

DJI, Thursday, 12 August 2021 21:50 (four years ago)

oh wow!

kinder, Thursday, 12 August 2021 22:51 (four years ago)

one month passes...

Ben has been toiling away for years making Geometry Dash levels, of varying levels of quality. Finally, this week, he got one rated (which means it will be seen by way more people), and he's already had thousands of people play it!

https://i.imgur.com/nZ4auQ8.jpeg

DJI, Saturday, 2 October 2021 15:21 (four years ago)

two weeks pass...

Pulled Angel Dust out of the rack to find it contained the drawing Marin did after I taught her how to sing Epic a couple of years ago pic.twitter.com/cIVOca3YZQ

— Stevie Chick (@stevie_chick) October 20, 2021

thing that i used to think was cool but now i just don't have time for (stevie), Thursday, 21 October 2021 09:27 (four years ago)

Apparently that's me on the left

thing that i used to think was cool but now i just don't have time for (stevie), Thursday, 21 October 2021 09:27 (four years ago)

it's it, what is it

Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 21 October 2021 09:28 (four years ago)

amazing

b-b-but surely Epic is on The Real Thing

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 21 October 2021 10:12 (four years ago)

Haha yes of course but I don't have The Real Thing on vinyl!

thing that i used to think was cool but now i just don't have time for (stevie), Thursday, 21 October 2021 10:21 (four years ago)

ok i'll allow it

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 21 October 2021 10:24 (four years ago)

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When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 24 October 2021 15:19 (four years ago)


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