Aubrey was happily coloring away when all of a sudden she came up to me and started questioning me about a picture. It was this picture:
It's a picture of one animal eating an ice cream and one animal NOT eating an ice cream. And the one NOT eating an ice cream has a really sad look on his face.
This REALLY bothered Aubrey. She was asking why he didn't have an ice cream, why the other guy wasn't sharing, etc. I did end up agreeing with her that it was a rather sad picture but that she could draw some ice cream on the other guys cone so that he has some ice cream and she said, "Yeah, but he'll still have that sad face." Unfortunately, I couldn't think of a solution so I just agreed with her. She proceeded to stand at her table and stare at her picture with this incredibly sad look on her face. It was awful!
So I finally convinced her to try another page...
As if that was any better!
The next picture was ANOTHER sad picture! One duck had an umbrella and the other duck was soaking wet with yet another incredibly sad look on his face! Grrreat.
Onto the next page...
Okay seriously?!?!
The person who illustrated this coloring book has some serious issues! Is it really necessary to make a child's coloring book so freakin' depressing? Is there no other way to effectively express opposites visually to children without causing so much emotional distress?
So much for a fun "arts and crafts" time with my kids!
Coloring FAIL!
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