I wish I could post a picture of this event. But since most of the kids were not mine, but friend of my grandkids...sharing is verboten. So remember I posted about the "Low Crawl" and the "high Crawl" training we all went through?
Yes, well, I told my Grandkids about it.
They had a gaggle of friends over, about five other kids, ranging from eight years old, to just turned 13. So seven of them. I showed them how to do both kinds of Crawls. And that would have made a funny movie, as it took all of them to help me back up. LOL
We used "Nerf rifles" for the crawl. they had to go from one side of the backyard to the other...maybe seventy feet or so. And they got competitive. Just picture a bunch of six month old babies, trying to crawl towards a ball...now make them older, and capable of hurling insults, encouragement and laughing like hyenas. Yep.
Then they surprised me by inventing the "Dog Crawl." Up on your knees, with your arms fully extended in front of you- like for a pushup. And man, they flew across the yard. Of course their knees and elbows - along with most of their jeans and clothes....dirty and grassed stained.
But for about half an hour, I had a mini platoon of inspired troops!
And as the one little guy said after the low crawl:
"This sucks."
To which the other six replied: "No, it's fun. You just suck at it."
And there it is...Attitude makes the difference.