My little ice skating Diva forgot her coat this morning when we made the forty five minute trek to the rink before school. So I only signed her up for one thirty minute block of ice time, expecting her to want to get off as soon as she got cold. I was very surprised to see her put her coaches coat on (that women is like a fairy godmother sometimes) and after thirty minutes of hard skating she bounced off the rink. I was waiting with her bags all packed when she shouted at me "can I have more ice time" and turned around and caught back up with her coach. Watching the two of them together can make me smile. It ain't easy to explain to a seven year old how to do something complicated like the free style four dance step, but that women did not give up, and when my little ice diva wanted to work on her jumps her coach tied a scarf around her neck in order to remind her to keep her head up. After her full hour of morning skating she spent another thirty five minutes taking to her coach about music, jumps and costumes. And while I would have been exhausted by the constant commotion her coach pulls up a laptop and starts going through song after song as they try to figure out a good light entertainment piece for the upcoming year.
Sometimes when your kid is learning something new you question why you put them through it. How do you know if they REALLY like skating and not just want to skate to avoid letting other's down. I don't know how other's know but it is mornings like this when I have to drag my kid off the ice, and out of the rink, and watch her watch the tournament in Japan on icenetwork and then have her ask to go skating again that I know she REALLY enjoys it.
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