Jim McIntosh

Mia & Ellie

The last 5 months Mia and Ellie have been taking Karate at school with a group called Crouching Tigers. They both have had a great time and they’ve been learning something new together.

The last session of the year all the kids in class were to demonstrate their new skill by breaking a board. Ellie, being a big strong girl, broke the board with no problem. Mia wasn’t able to do it in the class with all the parents and kids watching, but last week we had the board at home and she gave it another shot – and snap!

It just goes to show, like many things down syndrom, that just because she had down syndrom it doesn’t mean she can learn to do something with practice. It just take her a little longer, that’s all.