About a year ago, I wrote a book for our youngest daughter—who is a puzzle master—with the moral of avoiding boredom. A constant phrase in our house is: create more than you consume.
I spent most of the holiday break writing everything from scratch, incorporating our family pets into the story, and using AI to generate the art. My year was heavily consumed by work across many projects and yet I was most proud of this one.
When I surprised her with the gift, she did exactly what any 6-year-old would do: took one look, tossed it aside, and said, “A book? Boring!” Oh man, I can laugh about it now but that was a solid Dad dent!
Four months later, she came home with schoolwork where the class was spelling the word “once”. The final sentence she came up with was, “Once my dad rote a book.” Yeah, I almost cried. It goes to show that our kids are learning from us, even when we don’t think so.
