When they say competitive, that is what they mean, he lost all four games:)
I have been reading a lot about building resiliency in kids http://www.paultough.com/the-books/how-children-succeed/ and this author talks about the importance of failure and how we have been protecting them too much from real world consequences. Happily, the world of competitive badminton does not offer that protection:)
It was a long day, with a lot of down time. Luckily, I remembered that one of the best bookstores in the state was right down the road from the playing venue. Big shout out to New England Mobile
Book fair.
I had about an hour, and no plan. Since I am doing research for a book, I headed to the education section and picked up "my kid's an honor student, your kid's a loser" and Robert Coles "the secular mind". Then, onto philosophy for "the death of character" and "om at home".
Finally, poetry for "the best of contemporary Irish poetry".
No time for history, fiction, or art which saved me some money. It was a ninja strike on borrowed time.
Did I mention all these books are used? I know buying used books is not a joy my children will have, so my new philosophy is to buy double and let them shop our bookshelves some day:)
Finally, I will share a quote from the first book from my haul I am reading:
Again and again our professor would make that distinction for us: the world of action , the world of reflection --and ask us, always, whether the latter qualified as the former.
Robert Coles commenting on a seminar he took at Harvard with theologian Paul Tillich
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