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.
