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We never told him he couldn't do it--(16-110707)

本帖最后由 sunny萝卜 于 2011-7-7 16:21 编辑

My son Joey was born with club feet. The doctors assured us that with treatment he would be able to walk normally - but would never run very well. The first three years of his life were spent in surgery, casts and braces. By the time he was eight, you wouldn't know he had a problem when you saw him walk.
    The children in our neighborhood ran around as most children do during play, and Joey would jump right in and run and play, too. We never told him that he probably wouldn't be able to run as well as the other children. So he didn't know.
    In seventh grade he decided to go out for the cross-country team. Every day he trained with the team. He worked harder and ran more than any of the others - perhaps he sensed that the abilities that seemed to come naturally to so many others did not come naturally to him. Although the entire team runs, only the top seven runners have the potential to score points for the school. We didn't tell him he probably would never make the team, so he didn't know.
    He continued to run four to five miles a day, every day - even the day he had a 103-degree fever. I was worried, so I went to look for him after school. I found him running all alone. I asked him how he felt. "Okay," he said. He had two more miles to go. The sweat ran down his face and his eyes were glassy from his fever. Yet he looked straight ahead and kept running. We never told him he couldn't run four miles with a 103-degree fever. So he didn't know.
    Two weeks later, the names of the team runners were called. Joey was number six on the list. Joey had made the team. He was in seventh grade - the other six team members were all eighth-graders. We never told him he shouldn't expect to make the team. We never told him he couldn't do it. We never told him he couldn't do it...so he didn't know. He just did it.
 
                                                                                                           ----By Kathy Lamancusa

回复 12# fangnan


    But I like.

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回复 12# fangnan


incentive-style education


the way really different from Chinese's style.

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believe him, and give him positive signs, tell him: vell done, and come on!
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本帖最后由 sunny萝卜 于 2011-11-21 16:18 编辑

回复 9# wanxiaer113


    Hope you can learn more from tingroom .

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回复 8# 玄懿


    So sometimes we should say to ourselves :"No one tell couldnot do it ,so we can do it."

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attitude is everything! I learned from tingroom.
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The ignorant is without fear.
He don't know he can't do those things, so he successes.
He don't have the fears which come from his mind.
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回复 6# xiaomeixin


    No difference,so that we can start from the same starting line.

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We should never told him that he is different from others.But tell him,we are all the same and what we can do and you can do it too.Give him strengh courage.

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回复 4# tingroom


    yes,so right.
Parents are the first teacher in child whole life.

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home education is very important

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Sometimes human being's ability, we can not measure and count.
We could not say that we can not reach it or complete it before we do it.
Nothing is impossible,so let's do it ,go ahead,whatever we want.

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补充:

1、club feet: 先天性足畸形,畸形足

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