I'm sitting up in bed trying to decide between two destinations, nay, two categories of thought for tomorrow's excursion with Lily. Disneyland or the Bowers Museum...
For most people, this is an easy decision, but I'm literally losing sleep over it. Disneyland will be fun, of course. We will have fun rising the carousel and petting the goats. The day will be a point in a line of fun with dad, and add to Lily's generally positive impression of a funnish dad.
The Bowers Museum offers a different cultural experience, and may activate ideas and connect neurons that might otherwise remain sundered. It's a long-term investment of time that might yield a more culturally sensitive and intelligent human down the road, and will probably add to Lily's general view of her dad as someone who made her do slightly less exciting things that she came to appreciate later on.
I can't help but struggle with decisions like these. A totally fun day or a day of intellectual discovery? Prepare her mind to face the world around her, or just relax and let imagination and fantasy take the lead? Fun dad or teacher dad? Which face to put on today?
I just realized that maybe I wasn't a very fun teacher.
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