You had willpower early on. Imagine that. Even though I started out parenting with some basic parameters as far as food went- like no white bread or sugar cereals allowed- you were a born sugar addict. Frequently, I would walk you to the 7/11 to buy you candy rather than suffer one of your tantrums. But then around 4 or 5 you became a health addict instead, and gave up all of that for a time. Think you grasped the idea along the line that athletes had to be healthy to be strong and fast. You had vision. You took it seriously, and for a few years there, you really towed the line, even though no one else joined in. (That was pretty much over by the time we moved to California and I started Fat Fridays, remember?)
Dad more than once told me when I was despairing of kid stubbornness that it was just a matter of how it was applied---said it was a major strength to be stubborn in the cause of good and great things. The aggravating part is that kids pretty much decide what to be stubborn about, and we're all really kids for much of our lives, if we can get away with it, right?
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