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OKWTF2 · 51-55, M
How I once taught my daughter how to throw a baseball. She was always very smart, a real thinker even around 6 or 7 and not sure if it was watching tv or where she "learned" it, but she would wind up like on a pitcher's mound and throw the ball about 3 feet in front of her and in the dirt.
I told her I know she knows how to throw, I've seen her throw. Don't worry about what it looks like, what you look like, you're thinking about it too much.
I asked her why we are here? To have fun and when you are having fun you smile, so from now on put a smile on your face, and just get the ball to me.
Don't worry about what happens, doesn't matter if it is even a good throw, but I want to see her smile.
It worked so well, her throws were perfect for almost every time, but it especially worked on our smiles, they were big.
It also provided a teaching moment going back to "just smile, and do it, don't over think it" when you find yourself struggling to do something. I learned later when we reconnected that it helped her in many things. (Her mother and I were estranged and I was not in her life for too long a time).
I told her I know she knows how to throw, I've seen her throw. Don't worry about what it looks like, what you look like, you're thinking about it too much.
I asked her why we are here? To have fun and when you are having fun you smile, so from now on put a smile on your face, and just get the ball to me.
Don't worry about what happens, doesn't matter if it is even a good throw, but I want to see her smile.
It worked so well, her throws were perfect for almost every time, but it especially worked on our smiles, they were big.
It also provided a teaching moment going back to "just smile, and do it, don't over think it" when you find yourself struggling to do something. I learned later when we reconnected that it helped her in many things. (Her mother and I were estranged and I was not in her life for too long a time).