Sally's World

This is excellent, the kids (especially Deion) were crying with laughter!

Whatever happened to my dainty little girl that liked all things Barbie, and would only wear pink or lilac, the more frilly/glittery the better.

What happened to my little girl that made me pretend tea in miniature china cups…

Well, apparently this happened……


She’s turned into a ‘I’ll take no rubbish, black belted, forceful, karate kicking ninja child’

Go Robyn...

I'm going to have a boast here about my children.

Jordan and Robyn started going to Karate about six years ago now, they are very committed, and have been black belts for almost a year. I used to worry...especially when Jordan would come home and tell me he'd sparred with an adult...a full grown man twice his size....

'why?' I used to ask him in a worried tone...'well he's the only other brown belt mum,' was the confused answer.

We agreed to them going to full contact karate because they wanted to, I never got the other kind anyway...what do you do... pretend to do the moves, enact a throw???..but for me, there is a big self defense element to it too.

Even though Robyn looks dainty, I didn't worry about her so much, she has more of a forceful streak, she takes no rubbish, and no one messes with her. Jordan is just less...assertive...shall we say.

So one day I went to pick them up, just as the last part of the lesson was underway (the sparring part) I saw Jordan's sparring partner...all six foot two of him!!! oh dear...but then I realised that it was the guy who looked a little worried...and I realised why as soon as I heard what can only be described as a war cry from Jordan and he came running across the room (DO JO?)did a spinning split kick, grabbed on round the guys neck with his legs and took him to the floor in one swift movement...okay, so maybe I underestimated him a little.

Here's a Little video of my ninja warrior performing one of his latest tricks...