Thursday, September 30, 2010

The Quick Turnaround

The boys jumped right into the motel swimming pool without hesitation and swam (with the aid of floatation) all around the pool. Benji particularly enjoyed swimming laps back and forth across the pool’s width. When Granddaddy Roe began showing Benji how to push away from the side using his feet, he found an interested pupil. Jim had once taught complex aeronautic concepts to highly educated pilots at the Trans World Airlines (TWA) Training Center, but this task may have been equally challenging. It required speaking Two (the language of two-year olds), which can limit one’s verbal approach. But, using the fact that the boys want to emulate everything their parents and grandparents do and say, he simply showed Benji how to do it and encouraged him to follow.

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