There have been very few awards that have really had meaning in Tucker’s young life. Almost everything is a participation medal/ribbon/certificate. Even “Player of the Game” last year in T-ball was virtually meaningless as everyone had to win it for one game in the season. The track ribbons last summer at the track meet were meaningful, though the amount of time involved in winning one was typically a minute or less.
Anyway, I think it is commendable that there are actually winners and losers in his gym class. It turns out that there is also a real award – the Ninja Duck award – for being a superlative gym participant over a two week period. I’m not exactly sure what distinguishes a kid, but it has to be going above and beyond the call of duty in both performance and citizenship as the award has only been handed out twice this year in his class, and Tucker is the proud recipient of the second award. (The award is a rubber ducky dressed like a ninja which has already gone missing, of course….)
I am proud of my favorite Ninja Duck.
