Caring/Compassion/Sensitivity/Tact vs Lying/Faking

[Namaste]

Your mother, if understanding this, could have said "Your heart sings when you sing? Well then, let's see what we can do!".

Funny thing, if you hold the mother responsible, or tell her she was wrong, then you haven't learned anything from the experience.

" Thus, to learn is the same as to teach unless you are not teaching what you are learning; in which case you have done you/they little or no good."

Agreed. This is when the learned becomes the teacher, especially with their own children.

Regarding the picture: telling a child that it's "a piece of crap" is what I would call closed-minded. One has to appreciate the subjectivity of artwork and the beauty in expression of the self, regardless of technical ability. People often judge artwork using the left, analytical hemisphere, which often misses the point. Art and expression are predominantly of the right, creative hemisphere, and hence, using that aspect of one's self is the intended means of viewing (feeling, to be to the point).

Problem is that some seemingly blue manifestations represent orange/yellow or even green blockages. Just talking/writing does not mean using blue ray.

The point is that art is an expression of being, which transcends language and intellectual concepts :¬)

Hence, that child has created an expression of itself, using the current level of mastery (or not) it has over the implemented medium (i.e. paint). To intellectually judge the level of technical mastery misses the essence of the creation itself.