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Old 07-10-2008, 10:07 PM   #17
Steve Peters
Dojo: Aikido of Madison
Location: Wisconsin
Join Date: Apr 2007
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Re: Teaching children, seeing parents

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Ricky Wood wrote: View Post
I strongly encourage parents to train with their children.
I'm kind of have two minds on this. Somedays, your kids are just not having a good day, in which case training with them can just drive you up the wall. One day, one of my daughters decided she was not going to fall properly at all while I was training with her. It gets hard at those kinds of moments to remain a student and not let the parent take over. Overall, however, I have found that while I am on the mat with them, they pay better attention (usually) and train a little more seriously than they do when I'm not training too.
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