Our oldest daughter has been learning how to play the guitar.
My husband knows how to play, so he’s been teaching her.
His full size guitar looks so small cradled in her hands.
Her hands aren’t big enough to play many of the chords yet.
She can’t play a full song yet.
But she’s still having fun.
She’s a big Taylor Swift fan, so she found a website that shows the chords for each song.
While we get the youngest two children down to bed, that’s her time to play the guitar.
She strums slowly, concentrating hard to get the finger placement just right for each chord.
Each evening, she gets a little better.
The chords are played a little more smoothly.
As I tucked her in last night, she excitedly held up her palms to me.
“Look!” she said.
“Wow! Look at all of those cute little baby callouses from all of your guitar playing. That’s so cool!”
She smiled in satisfaction as I noticed her progress.
She’s a competitive girl, so I was worried she would get frustrated when she discovered her hands weren’t big enough yet to play all of her favorite Taylor Swift songs.
That hasn’t been the case at all.
She simply picks a different song to work on and learn.
She’s accepting the situation.
And she’s still having a lot of fun playing the songs she can play on the guitar.
Accepting isn’t the same as giving up.
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