{"id":298,"date":"2010-08-18T15:50:37","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T19:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ificandothisyoucan.com\/?p=298"},"modified":"2010-08-18T15:50:37","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T19:50:37","slug":"my-son-thanked-me-for-pushing-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ificandothisyoucan.com\/?p=298","title":{"rendered":"My Son Thanked Me for Pushing Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was giving my son a math lesson on forming groups.\u00a0 Using counting bears, I asked him to form 5 groups of bears with 4 bears in each group.\u00a0 He struggled and we worked on it together on two seperate occassions.\u00a0 Then I asked him to do it by himself.\u00a0 That&#8217;s when he really struggled, but I knew he could do it.\u00a0 I pushed him and pushed him, and just when he was about to give up, I gave him the pep talk of his life.<\/p>\n<p>3 minutes later he yelled, &#8220;Mommy, I did it!!&#8221;\u00a0 I came into the room and saw that my son created 5 groups of bears with 4 bears in each group, just like I asked him to.\u00a0 He was beeming with pride \ud83d\ude00 !!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And to my surprise, he jumped up and said, &#8220;Mommy, I&#8217;m so proud of you for teaching me!!\u00a0 And I&#8217;m so happy I did it by myself!!&#8221;\u00a0 Then he gave me a\u00a0really BIG HUG.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That was such a\u00a0huge reward for me, I&#8217;ll have\u00a0the motivation\u00a0now to homeschool for\u00a0the next\u00a03 months.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-299\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ificandothisyoucan.com\/2010\/08\/18\/my-son-thanked-me-for-pushing-him\/beargroups\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-299   aligncenter\" title=\"5 Groups of Bears\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ificandothisyoucan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/beargroups.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script> <fb:like href=\"https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ificandothisyoucan.com%2F%3Fp%3D298\" show_faces=\"false\" style=\"margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was giving my son a math lesson on forming groups.\u00a0 Using counting bears, I asked him to form 5 groups of bears with 4 bears in each group.\u00a0 He struggled and we worked on it together on two seperate occassions.\u00a0 Then I asked him to do it by himself.\u00a0 That&#8217;s when he really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[69,30,28,70],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeschooling","tag-counting-bears","tag-homeschool","tag-kindergarten","tag-motivation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ificandothisyoucan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ificandothisyoucan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ificandothisyoucan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ificandothisyoucan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ificandothisyoucan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ificandothisyoucan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/www.ificandothisyoucan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ificandothisyoucan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ificandothisyoucan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ificandothisyoucan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}