Aiden will be taking his yellow belt exam today!! He is VERY excited about it and he has been training really hard for it. Infact…I don’t think I’ve ever seen him work so hard for something before. 
Makes my heart swell with pride (sob! sob!)
Just about more then 1 and a half weeks ago he was deemed unfit to take the exam and was refer to take the next exam which was going to be in a few months time. That’s NOT going to go well with him at all..No,no.. not my son! He hates to be left out or be the last or anything like that. Especially not after he has made such a big commitment and decided to continue with the class,not being able to move forward with the class will break him…
You see, what happened was… For the past 3 to 4 lessons prior to these 2 weeks he has not been joining the class. His Master told me that he was just sitting by the side of the class,playing and sometime even crying. So he missed all those lessons and was really left behind. So we spoke to him about him not participating in the class, and if he wanted to stop then he’ll need to complete the first term and then decide again. I wanted him to learn to follow through… and not start something,then stop half way when the going gets tough.
But that chat didn’t work and my FIL found him sitting by the side of the class again one week when he was there to pick him up. So we had another chat with Aiden. And this time is was around if he wanted to continue with the class or not, because the term was almost over by then. After some thought, surprisingly he said YES!! He wanted to continue! And we asked him many times over the weekend. We thought that why he said yes was because of Greg… So Daddy spoke to him that it’s ok to stop if he didn’t like it and that he didn’t need to continue just to please him. But Aiden still said yes.. and that he wanted to get his yellow belt. So, I guess that’s what snapped!! He wanted to move up. Why didn’t I think of that?? My son cannot loose wan!! So he went for the next class fully participated in the class.His Master was very surprised and ask us what happened? 
After talking to the Master he said that Aiden was still not ready for exam… and I thought “Uh-oh… That’s not good.” Especially not after all the talk and and all… So we asked the Master when is the next exam (Which is another 10 weeks! It’s too long to wait!) So the other option is to put him on a crash course and train him very hard for a week. Aiden agreed… So that’s that! And he has been training very hard, Daddy has been helping him at home and Mommy has been sending him to extra classes all week. And now he is ready. So we’ll see. Updates later… Keep our fingers crossed. Please say a little prayer for Aiden.
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