The boy, "A", came up to me. "Did I make a big splash?" he asked when he could get a word in edge-wise.
"Oh, yes," I assured him. "You made a tremendous splash."
By the third time he asked me this after diving, I realized that he let out a large sigh as he headed back to the diving board. He was trying not to make a large splash, just like the good Olympic divers he had just watched on TV. Not really listening, I was not giving him the message he was hoping to hear. I was prepared for the next one, and praised the dive for having almost no splash at all. He was satisfied, and the boys moved on to going down the slide.
One of these days, I'll learn to listen.
2 comments:
Great action photo! Thanks for being such an encouragement to "A."
You may have the next Olympic star in the works.
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