We are used to seeing pictures like the one below. We have nieces/nephews, sons/daughters that bring home and give us this type of artwork. Our parents can surely bring out one of OUR similar masterpieces from their scrapbook. To the untrained eye, it is often impossible to differentiate it from a piece of modern art selling for six figures at auction.
The twist on this child's artwork is that it belongs to my father. He was five and a half and mailed this to his Aunt Lydia. Of course, my grandmother addressed the envelope.
It is often very difficult to place your parents in anything, but the adult-in-control paradigm (just as they can have difficultly in truly seeing you as an independent adult). It is such a rare treat to be given a reminder that they were also once a child.
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