In a world where it takes only hours to circumnavigate the globe, eighty days is a long time. Especially if you're a kid. So when you get recognized for completing a goal that took eighty days, your mom has to mention it. Through vacations and stomach flus (remember the picture? Ruby made me take it off the blog.) and late nights, they made it. Then, on the eighty-first day...nobody noticed! They just kept going. That's the best part.
At the guitar recital, the teacher presented TROPHIES to the kids who got 80 days. Ruby and Free were SO excited! They never dreamed of such a magnificent reward! Last time Ruby did a challenge like this, her violin teacher gave her a pencil. She was so disappointed, she vowed never to practice again. So this time, we didn't talk about whether there would be a reward. When the trophies came out, boy, those kids were thankful they had their charts filled in!
Here's to teachers who motivate, kids who cooperate and good habits that stick!
7 comments:
Way to go! (Seriously, if that isn't Circe and Scott in their younger years, I don't know what is!!! They are adorable!)
Way to go Ruby and Free! And Liz is right!
Awesome you guys! Your efforts really paid off.
Hope you have a wonderful Mother's Day circ, you are such in inspiring mom!
Congratulations to Ruby and Free for 80 days of hard work. Happy Mother's Day to an outstanding Mom!
Wow, you have such great kids, and such discipline. I want to hear the Dopp family concert.
A pencil???? Are you kidding? Good thing you have a great pencil shapener...that I can borrow! Your kids are hauling in the trophies! Way to go.
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