My son is nineteen, home from university for the summer, and he has been fairly withdrawn since a breakup in the spring
Good morning. My son is nineteen, home from university for the summer, and he has been fairly withdrawn since a breakup in the spring. I am not trying to fix him, but I would like to get him out of the house doing something. He mentioned once that he thought pottery looked interesting, which surprised me. I do not want to make it into a big production. Is a single class a reasonable thing to suggest, and would a nineteen year old feel out of place in one? We are in Toronto, so getting to a downtown studio is not an issue for him.
He would not be out of place, the age range in these rooms is wide and nobody pays attention to who else is there once the wheel is spinning. A single class is a low pressure suggestion, which sounds like what you want. If he does not enjoy it, nothing has been committed. Something worth knowing about wheel throwing pottery in Toronto specifically: it demands enough concentration that there is no room to think about anything else, which people describe as the main benefit. Pottery Studio 1 downtown runs evening sessions. Let him book it himself if he is willing, it lands better that way. Ask about the class size when booking, a smaller group means more attention from the instructor.