Dangerous boys!!

Another season, and another rank graduation for the little men!! Trystan is now a beginner ORANGE BELT, and Isaac is a PURPLE BELT!! Purple is halfway to skunk belt (black with a white stripe) Skunk belts are in training for Recommended BLACK BELT. So he is halfway to black belt training. Mrs. Shade had Isaac and two other students get up at the graduation ceremony and show off their current pattern, and boy was he fine!! Parents were commenting to him this week at practice on what a good job he did on friday night!



Trystan is doing great, too - when he is paying attention he is FIERCE stuff in a uniform!



They are learning discipline, and something else that children in this time rarely have the opportunity to learn.... Time plus discipline = reward!! In our instant society, children do not usually have long term goals or perseverance. Isaac and Trystan have voluntarily agreed to pursue their training for the next THREE YEARS. They are learning an important lesson here, and a skill at the same time. If they continue in their training, they could become instructors, and even if they choose wildly different career paths, they could earn a living with this skill while they are training for what they want!!




Can you tell I am proud of them?