success

Thank you all for you encouragement and advice regarding Oliver and whether or not to continue with martial arts. We did decide to make him go the rest of the month to see if he would warm up to it and told him that either Travis or I would accompany him on the floor till he felt comfortable. It worked!! He did great the first night with me on the floor with him and then the next practice Travis took him and just sat and watched and he had no problem going by himself. He is excited again about going and learning and we are so proud of him.
It was a hard decision to make and it could have gone either way, but I believe we did make the right decision and hopefully he learned something from it. It is always hard to try new things. It is always easier to run away when things are uncomfortable. But their is value and rewards to sticking to it and "persevering" which happens to be the theme for his session.
So hopefully we are done with this saga, but maybe a little bit more prepared for the next one that comes.