I agree, obviously! There are times when my kids have an idea and I feel it’s my role to say, “Okay, what do you need to see this idea through?” But there are lots of times when we’re trying something new, and I feel it’s much more appropriate to limit what we’re working with. And a provocation of just certain materials is always interesting, too. Part of my goal is to introduce my kids to different methods and techniques (in an open-ended way), and then when they have a specific idea, hopefully they have a varied enough technique “vocabulary” to achieve their idea in the best way they can.

(Also, in general, I feel eliminating choice overload, no matter what we’re doing, is the better choice.)