February 2012 Archives

I never see the boy get up with so much energy and enthusiasm as I did this morning. I stumbled into his room a little after 6AM to tell him to shut his snooze-fest alarm off due to it being a snow day, and Bam! He was out of bed, buzzing with latent possibilities. As I zombie-walked into the darkened living room a few minutes later, I saw his dim, silhouetted form dancing like nobody's business--alternating, I think, between the Twist and the Cabbage-Patch.

Harrison's sixth grade PE assignment for the last couple weeks: Teams of 2 to 4 kids each are required to come up with dance routines including three types of moves, one of which involves tumbling. Forty points assigned to music choice. Today is the day they give their finished performances.

In the car on the way to school a couple days ago:
Harrison: ::long groan:: Why do teachers want to give kids stress?
Me: Are you talking about the dance thing?
H: Yes. Why does a **PE teacher!** want to make kids dance? So that all the kids come to school every day with stress??

So I had him work on a couple brainwash affirmations the past couple nights:
"I'm looking forward to the PE dance performance"
"We're going to do a good job with the PE dance performance"

He seemed pretty calm and resigned on the way in this morning. Thousand-yard-stare. I'm looking forward to the debrief tonight.