“Just keep practicing,” Linnie tells her. “Some things take lots of practice to get better. Like . . . riding a bike without training wheels. But good news—once you get it, you’re all set, your muscles remember and you can always hop on a bike and do it after that, isn’t that cool? It really is hard to learn, though, and I get mad when I keep trying and I still can’t do it. But Mommy says I can do hard things. She says what’s hard about hard things isn’t often the things themselves but believing in ourselves when we try.”
