Liam has a best-friend-slash-nemesis at school. We'll call him "T.R." For months, Liam has been coming home and complaining that T.R. beats him in races "because he has faster shoes." In fact, the last time we got Liam new tennis shoes, he told everyone who would listen how excited he was that he would finally beat T.R. because his (Liam's) shoes were "super-fast catchers." And sure enough, he won a couple of races against T.R., and each time, he would come home and proudly tell us about it. But for the most part, T.R. is definitely a faster runner than Liam.
So yesterday, Liam's teacher told me that the boy has found a way to even the score: academics! For the past couple of weeks, the two boys have continued their races, but now Liam has come up with a spelling game in which they challenge each other to name the most words that start with a particular letter. Liam, being a better speller, wins almost all of these contests, which, in his mind at least, makes them even.
Funny enough, we also heard yesterday that T.R. might even be on Liam's soccer team (he missed the first practice). If so, their own personal competition should add an interesting component to the games!
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Ike also attributes running capability with fancy shoes. He does a soccer deal once per week at school. Another boy could run faster because he had soccer shoes. We caved and bought Ike soccer shoes also. I haven't heard any more about the other boy running faster.
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