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I was doing homework with Max tonight and boy was he being difficult, wouldn’t read, pretending he can’t read, sounding out words wrong purposely. Whiny, grumpy, basically a kid with a really, really, poor uncooperative attitude after a long day of school, he was tired, hungry, and grumpy.

So after a few minutes I say, “You know what Max, I’ve got to go get other stuff done if we’re not going to get through this. You’ll have to do it before we leave in the morning.” He walked off to his room (mind you I wasn’t yelling or even particularly angry I simply stated we’ll do it in the morning pretty flatly).

What seemed like 30 seconds later Max comes back and he’s an entirely different kid, a 100% change of perspective, metal state, and even physical attitude (this was extreme man I’ve never seen an instant about face out of him). So I look at him sort of puzzled and ask, “what’s up”, he sits down and reads flawlessly the first sentence and then says, “let do this” with a dead serious look. We get about halfway through and I tell him “Max I got to ask, what did you do in your room?”

He shows me a hand position and says, “I did this, and breathed like this, and I cleared out my whole head daddy, I’m ok now”.

So of course I’m thinking holy crap you’ve got to be kidding me?

Not sure if it was the power of suggestion based on things Darryl has said, and if he’s young and just so open to accepting and letting some things work without questioning or thinking about it. Don’t know.

I do know it was purely amazing to witness a seven year old take it upon himself to find a place alone and use a tool he’s learned to produce a total and complete change in mental state. And a lasting effective change too. He plowed through the homework without another issue and held onto the new attitude without wavering. I still don’t even really know what to make of it honestly… I’m sort of dumbfounded.