I am married to my second husband. I have 2 children from my previous marriage and we now have a DD who is almost 5.
Its going to sound petty and unimportant but please bare with me.
Basically I have been involved with karate for over 15 years. It is a huge part of my life. My elder children also joined as soon as they were old enough and it has become a huge part of their life too. I feel it is vitally important and I always said any child of mine would train.
Anyway I always assumed DD would train automatically when she was old enough. That time is now as she is coming up to 5 and DH said no, she can't go. I asked why and he said he doesn't agree with girls being taught how to fight and that its old fashioned now anyway I have a feeling DH is jealous of the time me and my boys put into training and competition etc and its something he can't feel part of. I think he thinks that by putting DD in too I will alienate him further.
I really do not want to give up on this, I feel she will miss out on so much if she doesn't train with us, I can't imagine having a teenager that doesn't know any martial arts and I know that will be odd sounding but thats how much a oart of our lives it is.
I really have 3 options, try to talk him around which has proved useless so far and just makes him anygry. Take her anyway and tell him he's being stupid or let him have his way and leave her out of it.
What would you do?