Thanks Coach

Sit-ups are a favorite workout at our house.  When Grand-Baby 3 is around she asks if she can help with everything, including exercise time.  So she is the official counter.  Currently I'm doing 2 reps of 20, and so she will count out 1 through 20 while her Pop Pop does his sit-ups.  She's a great coach.

In her coaching, though, she is also being coached.  Everything that a 3-year-old does is a learning opportunity, and any occasion to count something, anything, reinforces their number skills.  The interesting part is that she has no idea that she is learning anything.  Isn't that the way it happens for all of us.  When we take the time to come alongside someone and encourage them thought something, anything, then we in turn are reinforcing or developing new skills in our lives.  The coach becomes the coached, and we don't even notice.  Any investment in someone's life is also an investment in our own personal and spiritual growth, so get out of the spectators' stand and get down on the field.

"11.....12....18..."  I think I can do a hundred sit-ups like that.  Thanks Coach!


Chuck (217)