Time for a Kyrsten Tae Kwon Do story. They call her age group (4-5) "Little Ninjas." Master Kil actually had them using nun chucks (had to look up the spelling-there is more than one) in their second class. I know, just picture it.
Anyway, if you have ever been around four and five year olds they ask a lot of questions and make lots of random comments. They also will blurt out a question or comment the moment one crosses their minds. And a question or comment can be triggered by anything. So imagine trying to teach the "Little Ninjas" a few aspects of Tae Kwon Do while they are asking bizarre(to us) questions or making random comments.
Something else you should know about this particular class is that it had a substitute teacher. He had a more militaristic style and actually expected the "Little Ninjas" to just follow directions without talking and seemed rather annoyed that they would just blurt out their random questions or comments.
So as the "Little Ninjas" (attempt to) stand at attention my darling princess of a daughter asks, "Do you have pink belts here?"
Master Military replies, "Um, no."
Then Little Ninja Kyrsten asks, "Well, do you have purple belts?"
M.M. replies, "No, we don't have purple either."
To which L.N. Kyrsten proclaims, "Well I like pink and purple."
At this point I expected Master Military to make them all do push ups (yep, he did that throughout the class), but instead he said to her, "Well, when you move on to the next belt, your mom can dye your white belt pink or purple."
This was a satisfatory answer for Kyrsten and for mom. Maybe I should give Master Military a little more credit.
2 comments:
I imagine that when that last comment was made, she was very animated. One hand on the hip, the other hand out and open, hoping pink and purple belts would fall from the sky....
that is so funny!
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