"I think my personality definitely leaned Michelangelo, I still think TMNT is one of the greatest movies ever, too. I have two brothers and a sister, and the deal was that we had to be good in church for like a month to be able to go to the theater to see that movie. The last weekend, when we were supposed to go to the movies right after church, one of us got in trouble."
"They can act like children and they can deal with boredom. That's life. They can drop their fork as many times as they want and act like they need to use the washroom every five minutes, but you have to allow them to be bored. They have to have that time to use their imaginations, to sit there and wonder."
Matty Matheson wanted to be Michelangelo as a child and recounts earning a theater trip by behaving in church. He emphasizes letting children experience unstructured boredom by banning iPads in cars and forbidding items in restaurants to encourage imagination and patience. He accepts ordinary messy behavior, like dropped forks and frequent bathroom requests, as part of learning to be bored. He sometimes travels on flights without in-flight entertainment while working on shows and his Netflix program Just a Dash. His youngest daughter watches Bluey, and his seven-year-old middle daughter Rizzo is beginning to watch live-action Disney shows.
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