Bow in the Paper

Bow was recently featured in the Licking News. When we got a copy of the paper on Wednesday, Lawrence and Bow looked at it together for a while. Bow enjoyed seeing his picture in the paper, but he was much more curious about other local news. He kept wanting to flip to another page.

When I showed him the paper again today, he had pretty much the same reaction. It was nice to see himself in the paper, but the other stories were far more interesting to him.

It's good to know that while Bow enjoys reading about himself in the paper, he is not vain. He considers other news just as worthy of his notice.

Bow Reads the Paper

Sometimes we try to impress our kids. We want them to be proud of us, but any attempt to show off usually backfires. They are not impressed with your job, your achievements, and you can forget about blowing them away by having your picture in the paper. They value you only for what you do as a parent.

Bow is no exception to this general rule. Today, an article about Inverted-A Press by Durga Walker appeared on the front page of the Licking News. The article was very good, and a picture of me appeared just above the fold. I thought Bow would like to see it, but no sooner had I handed him the paper than he flipped to another page. It happened so fast, that I didn't get a single shot of him actually looking at the front page.

He seemed to find all the other articles that were not about Inverted-A Press to be much more interesting. Even the classifieds drew his attention.

To keep things in perspective, though, I have to say that he hardly spent any time at all on the picture of someone else he knows and likes who was in the paper, too, in a political ad. Bow likes real life interactions with people. He does not want to read about friends and family in the paper. And his opinion of our worth is not at all swayed by seeing a picture of us in the paper.

However, he does enjoy having a paper to read!