And speaking of movement (from the recess thread) I am also pondering the difficulty my son is having right now doing something that is not intuitive. All his life, things have been extraordinarily easy for him. All of his classes have been intuitively absorbed with little no effort. But this will not be forever true.
And so I try to make sure he is occasionally forced to do things that are NOT easy. So that he will know how to push himself through hard times. Usually this falls under the category of physical things. He's not terribly in tune with _rhythm_. I would say he's not coordinated, but he somehow manages to avoid injury through some fantastical contortions. He hates sports. But ask him to _dance_ and it is excruciating torture. Hollywood could not ask for a better model of the rhythmless nerd.
So right now, he is trying out for the school musical. And he has to learn a dance number to audition. He likes to sing - he LOVES to sing - and he's quite good. But almost all musicals require some dancing.
So here we are. Pushing through toil. Trying to do some cha-chas, some leaps, some spins, and linking them all together at a pretty fast beat. While not looking like a nerd who is walking a tightrope over a pit of bubbling lava, afraid for his life.
...still, I think it's good for people to know how to push themselves through something very unnatural/difficult. I think he'll be able to look back at this and know, "this group interview may be scary, but I learned how to dance in front of an audience of hundreds. I'm empowered."
And so I try to make sure he is occasionally forced to do things that are NOT easy. So that he will know how to push himself through hard times. Usually this falls under the category of physical things. He's not terribly in tune with _rhythm_. I would say he's not coordinated, but he somehow manages to avoid injury through some fantastical contortions. He hates sports. But ask him to _dance_ and it is excruciating torture. Hollywood could not ask for a better model of the rhythmless nerd.
So right now, he is trying out for the school musical. And he has to learn a dance number to audition. He likes to sing - he LOVES to sing - and he's quite good. But almost all musicals require some dancing.
So here we are. Pushing through toil. Trying to do some cha-chas, some leaps, some spins, and linking them all together at a pretty fast beat. While not looking like a nerd who is walking a tightrope over a pit of bubbling lava, afraid for his life.
...still, I think it's good for people to know how to push themselves through something very unnatural/difficult. I think he'll be able to look back at this and know, "this group interview may be scary, but I learned how to dance in front of an audience of hundreds. I'm empowered."