Owen Won This Battle...

For the last couple of months we have had Owen enrolled in Gymnastics. First of all this was never about learning gymnastics as much as it was about him going to class, listening to a teacher, waiting his turn and all the other social learning experiences that come along with it. Well over the past month Owen has put up a fight like no other. He has screamed and cried and refused to go. We would try every reward possible to convince him to go and almost every punishment reasonable if he didn't. To our dismay he wouldn't go. I just couldn't understand it. Who wouldn't want to jump on trampolines, swing on a rope, hang upside down from a bar and roll on mats. It seemed fun to me! Well we officially gave up. We finally asked ourselves is this doing more harm then good? It was. Owen won this battle, but we are still fighting the war on his stubbornness.