My son loves to make everything a competition with his little sister. From who can run up the stairs faster, kick more soccer goals, ride a bike better, brush his teeth faster. You name it, he can turn it into a competition.
I can be competitive and for the most part turn it off. We try to explain to our son that everything does not have to be a competition.
Well, the other night he turn the tables on me.....
My son wanted to do sit ups before he went to bed. I think this was triggered because when he was 3, the only thing that calmed him down was bedtime "Yoga". It was really just stretching...
Our nightly routine goes something like this "The kids brush their teeth, we read books, I tuck my baby girl in, and sneak off to my sons room so he can do sit ups. This was the routine most nights for the last 2 weeks. We would take turns and do 3 sets of 10. I was impressed he could do them. Well, one night we completed our sets and he wanted to see how many he could do. He did 54 sit ups (on top of the 3 sets of 10). I was amazed and as father would do, I started doing sit ups to show him how many I could do. Well, after about 30 (on top of 3 sets of 10) I struggled. As he held my legs for me, he said "Daddy it is not a competition you can stop if you want..."
Talk about funny. He not only showed me up in sit ups, but used my own lecture on me.
Sunday, August 3, 2008
It's not a competition!
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This whole competition thing is not just in Stephen. It's pretty much in all young boys. When I read the book, "Bringing Up Boys" by Dobson, it provided great prespective on this (and tons of other boy stuff) for me. I'm an extremely uncompetetive person, but I'm working to let Ryker embrace healthy competetion as it's genetic and is part of the process of him learning to identify with his masculinity. The book also has an interesting theory about the American education system and lack of competition in schools, but I won't spoil the punch line on that one (hee hee)
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