A few photos

Here are a few photos from today's class. I thought it was going to go well since it seemed at first like it would be a small class, but instead-everyone seemed to show up right AT 4:15pm when class starts. So that went out the window. Cell phones were ringing, conversations were going on, there was a loud game boy behind me....it was a nightmare. The irony of it all, the instructor is sitting there telling the KIDS not to talk while he is talking....and yet the parents kept going on and on. Then again, I was in the front row and all but leaning over the wall straining to hear him talking to the kids, so the other parents probably couldn't hear anything. Maybe they should implement knuckle pushups for parents who can't keep it quiet during class? I bet then they would shut up.

Chance did okay. I can tell he is trying, but I know he can do better. He really needs to work on his listening. When they are supposed to be sitting down at attention, which is cross legged and hands on their knees-he'll be sitting on his knees. It was making me crazy. I'll give the kid credit for raising his hand when he wanted to talk, but he kept on and kept on and kept ON raising his hand when the instructor wasn't even asking a question. I am sure if they had asked Chance what he wanted to say, it would have been something completely random and have nothing to do with karate.

I'm just at a loss on how to handle him lately. It seems like he has such a horrible attitude and then the minute we get to his class, he gets his act together. Which is great for his karate instructors. But then the moment he bows out....he's literally whining or complaining about something. Usually it's him wanting to get something to eat and not at home. We got take out ONCE after a class and since then, he's whined about it every single time after class. I think I am just around him way too often. Hopefully he'll get better once he's back in school. Maybe then I'll be in school. Anyways-here are the photos. Would have gotten more except thanks to someone taking the camera out of my bag yesterday and taking random photos of pictures he colored....the battery went dead in the middle of class.

Here he is before class, notice how he is sitting.


Still before the official start of class. The assistant was just playing some games with the kids who were already there and he and Chance were a team, and the other kids had to try and knock them down. Don't think any of them managed to do it either!


During class