Perseverance...

Here is Ryan playing PeeWee Basketball. He realized after about 2 minutes this was not for him and let us know regularly. He just wanted us to say the word and let him quit. Trying to teach your four year old a good solid lesson is a challenge and a lot of times I don't think he is listening. To back up a minute, we struggle to finish our homework every week. Several Sundays ago we had a lot of work to do because he was absent and had a book report to do. Meltdown, wailing. I just told him that we don't quit when we have a job to do. He gained his composure and did the work and did it really well. I figured we'd be going through the agony next week w/our homework.

Now, back to basketball... The next Saturday was another basketball game and Ryan really did not want to go but he said to me, "you know mom, I realized I have a job to do and my team is counting on me. Severson's don't quit." Well, we continued to go to games every Saturday for the last 6 weeks. He was counting down for today...his last basketball game he'd ever have to play. I have to say I am so proud of him. He did it. We learned basketball is not his thing. But I think we both learned something even more important. I learned that he is listening and he learned a good lesson in perseverance. I am so very proud of him.

"You can't go through life quitting everything. If you're going to achieve anything, you've got to stick with something." ~From the television show Family Matters