L is very interested in Dora. I'm reminded of a conversation I had a few years ago with a young woman. She criticized Dora for not being very good at teaching spanish. I said the point of Dora was to teach children call and response, and to keep lists.
We watched this great talk for Ted Talk Tuesday last week. Melody tells a story of swimming laps holding her breath the entire length of the pool. At the end she asked why they were doing it. Her coach says the point of the exercise was to be comfortable being uncomfortable.
I think so many of the things we go through in life are not for the sake of learning how to do that thing. If we look for the lessons we can learn in those hardships, we'll be much better off for having gone through them.
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