#Mary Townsend

[ahb-writes]

Most children's art exists to be destroyed.

Mary Townsend ("Throw Your Children’s Art Away," The Atlantic, 2018)

[megiddo]

Everlasting milky way

for Mary Townsend

she points at an antique toy no wear or tear any where on it beloved things do not survive childhood unless beloved childhood did not survive

M B

[marshmallowglow]

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/09/throw-your-childrens-art-away/570379/

this is just... the most horrible thing I ever read, wtf

Childhood is like that, too—or that’s how parents ought to think about it. Kids thrash about until a more recognizable self takes hold. 

The point of life isn’t to prolong youth, but to have grown up.

Eventually, if you’ve looked at it often enough, the art becomes pitiful, emptied of meaning. It remains, at best, a sign that the child has moved on to another equally ephemeral moment of her life, already coloring on something else.

lol is this person a disney villain?