Today is Thursday. Which means Zac’s 2nd fencing class after dinner.
I realized something last week. After the class I was critiqueing him all the way home. “You shouldn’t hold your foot like that”, “You need to do this…”, “You need to always watch the teacher”…. etc. Not once did I say good job, you looked great, or anything. I realized this later at home. So I quickly told him that I thought he looked like he was having fun, he looked awesome and I was so proud of him.
I’ve known that I am an opinion pusher but I also need to work on my judgement speaking. I need to let the teacher teach and let Zac learn from the teacher. I need to be there if Zac wants to practice at home and do my best to just support what he’s doing instead of always telling him he should improve on what he’s doing.
If I’m NOT ME, maybe he can be him!!
This is a huge lesson for me to have learned. I hope I can do better after tonights class and in all things to come.
