Full swing

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Date: 12 April 2008 21:01:53

Ballet this morning; drama around lunch time - classes have started again - and our busy daughter, thankfully, has more or less recovered from her tummy bug. It was our daughter's birthday on Thursday; that evening she was to take part in a show with her drama group, but just before it was due to start, she was sick, and they had to manage without her. One of her presents was a pink Nintendo DS. Our son was to get a black DS for his birthday, which is just over a week away, but his despair yesterday that his sister had a games console while he didn't prompted me to take emergency measures, and supply him with his early.

I was watching him play this morning - I wondered at the intensity of his concentration - and thought about that fierce energy - which for so much of the time has no outlet - we work so hard to shelter our children - but how can we challenge them, and enable them to fulfil their potential?