Beth learns the value of self-discipline

Beth learned the importance of Self-Discipline yesterday.

I had asked her to do a stocktake of her Kumon workbooks before today's lesson.

To her horror, she discovered that she still had 11 workbooks to complete!

I impressed upon her the life lesson that had been revealed by her inaction. We did a quick calculation and worked out that if she took 10 min per workbook, she could complete them all in about 2 hours.

To her credit, she buckled down and got working, though not without the occasional extended break and show of rebellion.

At 9 pm, she was down to the final two and she decided that she could and would finish them.

It was wonderful to see her make up her own mind about the matter without any parental pressure. A breakthrough in maturity indeed.

She eventually finished one and took herself off to bed, declaring she would finish the other after school today and before Kumon.