Kung Fu is eating up my free time

[lisamoe]

Today my mother picked Jesse up for a shadowy errand, which turned out to be taking him down to a martial arts academy and signing him up for classes.  I thought maybe a class or two a week, but she apparently signed him up for unlimited classes.  So now he wants to go every single day.  It seems he really loved it.  He took a Tai Chi class with her and my Dad this morning and then this evening begged for me to take him back for Kung Fu.  Which I did.  We took Dingo and they let him try the class too, even though it was an adult level class.  It was two hours long and Jesse stayed, enraptured, through the whole thing.  Dingo stayed an hour and liked it enough that I'm going to take him back for the 4-8 year old classes next week.   The teacher said that he felt like Jesse could do well in the adult classes and to bring him back to anything he wanted to try.  Most of their classes are for all skill levels and he just works with each student where they are.  So anyway, it looks like driving them to lessons is going to take  all my free time for the immediate future, though I'm hoping R or my folks will take them to some of these classes so I'm not down there every night.    But for Jesse it's probably worth it.  The teacher was already on him about tying his shoes and clipping his nails, which Jesse seemed to take seriously coming from him, though he completely tunes me out when I gripe about those things.  It's probably worth the tuition just to have someone he'll actually listen to about his slovenly personal habits, even if he never learns any actual fighting skills.

Comments

[chibi-jeni.livejournal.com]

That's great!!! :)

Not that your kids need any discipline or lessons in manners, because they're WONDERFUL already!

It is great teaching both of them how to defend themselves and the history that goes with their disciplines.

Good on ya!

[a-spirited-soul.livejournal.com]

Trip will be glad about the nails. He's really worried about Jesse trying to beat the world record for long nails and having curly black fingernails! He mentioned this just lasts night, as a matter of fact.


This will be neat - something more the boys have in common!