# The baby drew a cat!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-baby-drew-a-cat/280419>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 17, 2004, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-baby-drew-a-cat/280419 "2004-12-17T21:22:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![indecisive1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/41988e/32.png) [@indecisive1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indecisive1)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-baby-drew-a-cat/280419/21 "2004-12-18T12:27:30Z")

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I love kid art. It’s all wild and untrained and expressive. Those kitty eyes she did are fabulous!

Set out those art supplies and then step away.

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**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-baby-drew-a-cat/280419/22 "2004-12-18T13:25:43Z")

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> [@indecisive1](#):
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> I love kid art. It’s all wild and untrained and expressive. Those kitty eyes she did are fabulous!
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> Set out those art supplies and then step away.

Good point. If this becomes too big a deal to you and she knows it, it’ll be the perfect thing to push your buttons by not doing ever again.

I showed some early promise for musical instruments. Mom and Dad got really excited and suddenly I had an orchestra’s worth and was always being pestered to play something. Wouldn’t pick a thing up past 2nd grade, and I suck now. Which is a shame, because now I’d really \*like \*to be able to play something, but I can’t. And I seem to have outgrown my aptitude. ☹

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**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-baby-drew-a-cat/280419/23 "2004-12-18T16:38:26Z")

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Spend the money to have it matted and framed. You’ll never regret it.

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**Author:** ![finette6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@finette6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/finette6)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-baby-drew-a-cat/280419/24 "2004-12-18T17:36:15Z")

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Damn! Your kid can draw better than half the kids at my school (fantsy-pants art college in The Greatest City in America). Kidding, but not by too much! It’s so clear that she was really noticing little things about the kitty and putting them on the page!

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**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-baby-drew-a-cat/280419/25 "2004-12-18T17:56:03Z")

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Well, can she draw the Pirate?

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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-baby-drew-a-cat/280419/26 "2004-12-18T18:02:30Z")

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Now I wanna see the cat draw a baby!

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