I’d Rather Do Everything Else Besides…
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Most times, practicing is hard. Work makes us tired, and then we have to come home and [insert chore here]. As a daddy, I have to dig deep. Some times, I just don’t feel like playing “monster” with my kids.
My daughter experiences her own version of not digging deep. As a budding violinist, she works hard (mostly) to learn notes, to place fingers correctly and to learn new songs. Tonight I witnessed to that. She just didn’t have it. Get this, she made lunch, cleaned up clothes and did abnormally grown up things that I would love for her to do at other times. School was tough (Swinging on the monkey bars repeatedly takes a lot out of a little girl.), and she just didn’t have the energy. I kept pressing her because, well, sometimes we have to do things we don’t feel like doing.
It’s a hard lesson to learn, and one that I’m still learning how to deal with.
How do you dig deep after an eight or ten hour work day and after the kids to bed and after helping with laundry and …. (the list goes on)? I don’t have the answers, by the way, I’m asking you.
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