Parenting month 97: Ai yaaa * 3

This month, DD4 joined her big brother and I in doing American Taekwondo Association (ATA) classes.  Of course, she has been watching us do these classes in the basement for a few years now, so she has been looking forward actually being in the class, doing the forms, the exercises, and even the curtesies (bowing in etc)  She has been doing as expected as a third member, being fairly fluent in the conditioning exercises like ladder drills and picking up forms (at this age, they follow on forms instead of memorizing) which she has been seeing all her life.

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Today’s #tkdfamily workout programmed by DD4. Ladder drills, agility and bag drill, ba maang ee blocks, and line sparring. Followed by #streetparking shift of goblet squats, presses, and sit-ups. And this is why we have a #homegym #garagegym @streetparkingmembers #fitover40 #fitfamily

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She has enjoyed doing this at home, and we let her program part of the workout.  The  ladder drills exercises, conditioning exercises, punching bags,weapons, or forms.

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What happens when you ask the 4 year old to program the workout . Me: what are we doing? DD4: ba maang ee! Me: how many? DD4 200! Alright, 25 sets of 1-2-3-4 strikes with each hand for the too slow to speak up big brother and I #tkdfamily @wexford_ata

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T (DS8) has also been continuing.  We've been battling various illnesses over the past couple of months.  One milestone is that he has been accepted in to the National Talent Search program through the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth. So we are looking forward to having access to a set of online and summer courses with a very different set of kids, who will become his peers for a lifetime.