Key word for criticism: Encouragement. Constructive criticism should build up, not tear down. Telling someone their art is bad? How should they respond to that? "No it isn't"? "Sorry, I'll go away and not do it again"? Your little daughter or son comes to you. "Look what I made!" Do you say, "That looks so amateurish! You stink at art."? Or, "You get better all the time! But I think a pony has more than three legs. Would you like to draw another leg on your pony?" Encouragement. :^)

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy