gueli
04-20-2009, 09:46 AM
This is not a new baby thread.
I was wondering if other parents would share some of the moments that make a parent feel proud. Or just even some of the joy or laughter that a child has brought.
My most recent story (to make a long story long)...
My DD is 7. She takes kung fu, and has been doing so for about 3 years. When we started, we felt it would be good for her self esteem, physical conditioning and provide her with some sort of self defense if she needed it. We managed to find a school that we were happy with (Green Cloud Kung Fu) that had a fantastic teacher who seems to have a gift with the kids (Some have called Tristan the "child whisperer" - oh and as an additional comment, he even teaches some autistic kids- one mother in talking to my DW said it was the one thing her austic child looked foward too...but anyway).
As is typical with any thing - DD has had her ups and downs- misbehaving in class and not be allowed to participate (down) to getting to her next belt level (Up). For the past 2 months or so she had a down period, but finally started to pull out of it.
This past saturday she had achieved enough that she was ready to be tested for her next belt. Now I work overnights, but we had talked about & decided that I would go - with one hour of sleep (Mom was working, normally her uncle took her saturdays).
So we get there and her teacher Tristan decides that she should help him lead the class through the workout. I was thinking that he had a master stroke of genius- because DD always seems to shine in front of an audience.
Well, she gets up in front of the class and does everything perfectly. She pauses long enough to make sure the entire class has done the pushup/situp/squat, etc (I watched her as she looked to make sure). Her teacher was so happy with her. She recieved major props after doing this. After the warmups, she did everything as hard as she could- if she made a mistake, she corrected herself and redid the form properly without any prompting.
At the end, She did her 20 Pushups perfectly !!!
Tristan explains to her that the belt for the next level had not come in, yet, so would she mind if he gave her a temporary one- Purple.
Now Purple is DD favorite color :). You can only imagine how she smiled and lit up. What a wonderful moment captured in my memory (and a pic also for mom).
Knowing she tried her best, and had one of her best classes ever made me feel soo proud.
What a great day.
Thank you for listening, and please add some stories of your own.
Mike
:mickey:
I was wondering if other parents would share some of the moments that make a parent feel proud. Or just even some of the joy or laughter that a child has brought.
My most recent story (to make a long story long)...
My DD is 7. She takes kung fu, and has been doing so for about 3 years. When we started, we felt it would be good for her self esteem, physical conditioning and provide her with some sort of self defense if she needed it. We managed to find a school that we were happy with (Green Cloud Kung Fu) that had a fantastic teacher who seems to have a gift with the kids (Some have called Tristan the "child whisperer" - oh and as an additional comment, he even teaches some autistic kids- one mother in talking to my DW said it was the one thing her austic child looked foward too...but anyway).
As is typical with any thing - DD has had her ups and downs- misbehaving in class and not be allowed to participate (down) to getting to her next belt level (Up). For the past 2 months or so she had a down period, but finally started to pull out of it.
This past saturday she had achieved enough that she was ready to be tested for her next belt. Now I work overnights, but we had talked about & decided that I would go - with one hour of sleep (Mom was working, normally her uncle took her saturdays).
So we get there and her teacher Tristan decides that she should help him lead the class through the workout. I was thinking that he had a master stroke of genius- because DD always seems to shine in front of an audience.
Well, she gets up in front of the class and does everything perfectly. She pauses long enough to make sure the entire class has done the pushup/situp/squat, etc (I watched her as she looked to make sure). Her teacher was so happy with her. She recieved major props after doing this. After the warmups, she did everything as hard as she could- if she made a mistake, she corrected herself and redid the form properly without any prompting.
At the end, She did her 20 Pushups perfectly !!!
Tristan explains to her that the belt for the next level had not come in, yet, so would she mind if he gave her a temporary one- Purple.
Now Purple is DD favorite color :). You can only imagine how she smiled and lit up. What a wonderful moment captured in my memory (and a pic also for mom).
Knowing she tried her best, and had one of her best classes ever made me feel soo proud.
What a great day.
Thank you for listening, and please add some stories of your own.
Mike
:mickey: