FAMILY PROFILE
GIVING WAY TO
YOUR CHILD’S DREAMS
Creativity manifests in many ways in children. It could be in art, music, or dance – their first doodles, their first dance moves, or twiddling on piano keys. What do you do when you are the parent
of an artistically gifted child? How do you strike a balance between art and education? Or are they
one and the same thing? We invited our own art prodigy Xu Ziqi (Maxwell, also goes by his artist
signature Orange Peel) from grade 10 and his parents Xu Shijun and Li Shujian to share their experiences with us, and what it means to nurture a child’s dream and passion. His father, Xu Shijun,
and mother, Li Shujian, work for a listed company in Inner Mongolia, as director and vice president
and board secretary respectively. These proud parents have even self-published Maxwell’s drawings
and paintings in a compilation called, Drawing Pad.
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