Today I was giving my son a math lesson on forming groups.  Using counting bears, I asked him to form 5 groups of bears with 4 bears in each group.  He struggled and we worked on it together on two seperate occassions.  Then I asked him to do it by himself.  That’s when he really struggled, but I knew he could do it.  I pushed him and pushed him, and just when he was about to give up, I gave him the pep talk of his life.

3 minutes later he yelled, “Mommy, I did it!!”  I came into the room and saw that my son created 5 groups of bears with 4 bears in each group, just like I asked him to.  He was beeming with pride 😀 !!!

And to my surprise, he jumped up and said, “Mommy, I’m so proud of you for teaching me!!  And I’m so happy I did it by myself!!”  Then he gave me a really BIG HUG. 

That was such a huge reward for me, I’ll have the motivation now to homeschool for the next 3 months.