“The secret of parenting a toddler, I’ve decided recently, is that their burgeoning personhood opens you up to a world of hobbies”
The new year is the perfect time to finally take up ceramics, learn Mandarin, start a book club, try rock climbing, or plant a garden. In 2018, the Cut has practical advice on trying something new. Make bowls, not just resolutions.
With a toddler, we are fairly consumed with parenthood, in a way we once perhaps fashionably denied would happen or was happening to us, but have come to embrace. These days, what delights me the most is not how I’ve maintained the same person I was before, or transformed into some benevolent and graceful mother-being, but how I’ve become more like the person I was long ago, as a child.
The secret of parenting a toddler, I’ve decided recently, is that their burgeoning personhood opens you up to a world of hobbies. Take, for example, adult coloring books: At the risk of sounding mean, can we just agree these are a bit depressing? The opposite is true of sitting down with a toddler and a box of crayons.
The secret to a fruitful hobby, I think, is the intensely private joy. The world doesn’t give a shit when an amateur tennis player masters a backhanded serve. No one at a dinner party cares that you finally got good enough at Scrabble to beat your girlfriend. But the tennis player cares, the Scrabble victor cares, and that caring is enough. When my son finally eats gooey, nutrient-rich vegetarian lasagna, my husband and I will be over the moon.
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