[Kimberly Dow]

Good answer Michele.

I've felt the pressure and caved this summer with kid's lessons. As there is no art in the public school system here until a little bit in Junior High people were hounding me. I didn't want to, but I already had to cut back on my hours because the kids were home for the summer. This way I could take the kids with me to participate and have an excuse to be open at night, which usually got me a little more painting time. It worked out well, but I won't do it again unless I'm in the same situation next summer. I have just learned how to say no. I had people coming into town on vacations (this happened several times) and the grandmother would try to hire me to give lessons to the 3 or 4 grandkids for a few hours. Just another form of babysitting, it felt like. Hard to say no when it's such a small town and these are usually the affluent in town, but I'm not a daycare.