Chapter 45 - The Young Woman Of The Flower Shop

Today, Jiangchengis having a light drizzling rain. This is not surprising as the city is locatedin the south of the Yangtze River. It is a city that is warm and rainy. Itbegan to rain, but this gave the city some kind of poetic and picturesque charm.

Of course, Xixiwas not as strong as her father, and the spring rain was cold. In the morning,her father added an extra thin blouse to the her.

StreetCorner's Coffee Shop has quietly opened. Yang Yi, who doesn't like the hustleand bustle, and does not understand the common custom, didn't do a grandopening. He even chose a weekend free time to hang a simple wooden signboard, whichis considered the opening ceremony.

This hasalso led to no one knowing it. There have been no customers coming to thecoffee shop for two days since its opening..

It's justthat Yang Yi doesn't care.

The sky isdark, but the coffee shop is as warm as a home. The soft yellow lights slightlylight up every corner. It's as warm as if sitting around the fire in the winternight, perfect for friends to have a quiet conversation.

However, infront of the bar, Yang Yi turned on the extra bright incandescent lamp. He wipedthe cup tirelessly while he smiled as he watched his daughter draw.

Xixi's smallfigure sat high, leaning over the clean and spacious marble bar, carefullyusing her colored crayons to draw the image on her mind on the white paper.

After awhile, the little girl looked up and said happily, "Papa, look, how is mydrawing?"

Yang Yi hasbeen watching. Xixi has improved after he taught her a few tricks earlier. However,the painting is still very abstract.

"Good!Is this an elephant you drew?" Yang Yi gave her a thumbs up and asked,pointing to the animal on the paper, which was as round as a pig, but had along nose.

"Yes!"Xixi said happily, "The mother elephant has a long nose."

"Yourdrawing is really great!" Yang Yi smiled and rubbed the little girl'shead.

Afterreading those parenting books, Yang Yi's ideas have changed.

Before, hestill thought that Xixi's painting was a little awkward, so he wanted to teachher how to draw!

However,there is a book that says: "Learning to draw too early makes childrenunable to draw.."

Childrenbetween 0 and 7 years old are in an important period of right-braindevelopment, and a very important part of right-brain development is "to usethe transformation and expression of drawing to improve the right-brain healthand the formation of divergent thinking. Therefore, in this period of time,children need to express their imagination and association freely, and cannotbe constrained by fixed drawing style, but should be fully expressed in richcolor experience and non-stereotyped drawing changes." (TN: Let thechildren develop their own drawing style/s and not have others teach them aspecific drawing style, so that they can freely express themselves.)