“Wax on, wax off”.  This phrase, for people in my generation tends to promote images of a little Japanese guy giving a kid from New Jersey what he asked for, in a roundabout way.  The movie from which the phrase comes, “The Karate Kid”, which I managed to catch on TV over the weekend, and growing up was one of my favorites.  Watching it again as an adult, and a parent, I realized one thing, he played an effective role as a father figure for Daniel Larusso.  Maybe I recognized this now, because I get to experience first hand, a child’s refusal to learn by conventional means.

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