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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]  The t-shirts they are trying to sell are incredibly insulting to parents.

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I think any parent who would be insulted is either incredibly insecure or full of him/herself. It's no more "insulting" than the shirts that say things like "9 out of 10 kids get their good looks from their grandmas!" or "9 out of 10 kids get their intelligence from their aunts" or "9 out of 10 kids get their kindness from their godparents." If you value your nanny, like we do, you wouldn't mind the fact that your child's personality IS strongly influenced by the nanny. My kids get their creativity from their nanny. If there was an "I get my creativity from my nanny!" shirt and she bought it for them, I wouldn't be insulted.

That said, I think all of those shirts are about as "awesome" as the "My (someone) went to (location) and all I got was this lousy t-shirt!" which is why I personally wouldn't buy.[/quote]

Lady, your kids get their creativity from you or their father. Your nanny is skilled at giving them the opportunity to use and develop their natural talents, but she isn't the source of them.[/quote]

All but one of kids were adopted out of the foster care system, so I guess you could say they get their creativity from the crack-addicted losers who created, abused and neglected them, but we like to believe NURTURE is just as important as nature. Thanks anyway.[/quote]

Yeah, they got their creativity from those losers. Truth. You are wonderful people for helping them nurture those innate talents, however, which would not have seen the light of day otherwise.

No need to be a jerk.[/quote]

Sorry if you think I was being a jerk; I don't believe I was and didn't mean to come across as one.

HOWEVER, I still disagree. It's not "truth" that they got their creativity from their bio-parents. Yes, they were probably born with a least a little of it, but often environment fosters creativity as much as, if not considerably more, than anything else. Creativity is not simply something a person is born with. It is not a genetic condition, passed down from the parents. Sometimes very creative people have children who are not creative at all and sometimes people who are not creative at all have very creative children.

Look up creativity: nature versus nurture. It's very interesting. A good search brings up many interesting discussions on that subject. One site (not sure if links are permitted, but you can google) says "Few creativity skills seem to be inherited, and most seem to be learnable with training... Research on how identical and fraternal twins score on available tests of these creativity skills show that differences between the scores of identical twins on creativity tests were similar to the differences between fraternal twins. (Concordance is low.) Therefore, these creativity skills do not have a large genetic contribution."

Trust me, as discussions like this come up A LOT within my family and social circle, I've done a lot of reading on these subjects.

So I believe that my kids DO get much of, if not most of, their creativity from their nanny, who is an artist, musician, and thespian. I truly believe, if she wasn't around, they wouldn't be the creative little people they are. How else does it make sense that all of them are into art, music, and theatre, when they're not all genetically related to each other? My husband, nanny, and I are the common threads - and like I said, they're not getting it from me.

Again, I hope I'm not coming across as a jerk. I'm honestly not trying to be. [/quote]

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