Anything I can do they can do better

This morning my sons will complete a five-week course in cartooning that they’ve been taking at the San Francisco studio of the awesome Sirron Norris.

I took some Saturday-morning cartooning classes when I was around their age, and now that they have too, there is nothing left that I could do as a kid that they can’t. But there’s plenty that they can do that I can’t, even as an adult.

	My kids	Me as a kid	Me as an adult
Cartooning	yes	yes	yes
Swimming	yes	yes	yes
Bicycling	yes	yes	yes
Succeeding at school/work	yes	yes	yes
Inexhaustible capacity for enjoying Star Wars and Lego	yes	yes	no
Playing baseball	yes	no	kinda
Playing a musical instrument	yes	no1	kinda
Martial arts	yes	no	no
Choral singing	yes	no	no
Gymnastics	yes	no	no
Skiing	yes	no	no

¹“Hot Cross Buns” on the recorder doesn’t count.

It’s like they’re not ordinary kids. They’re… superkids!