article_snippet.sent: (CNN)The night before Kate Parker daughter's first triathlon, Kate Parker could tell the child was nervous.
article_snippet.sent: Ella and Kate Parker younger sister, Alice, are athletic, loud, curious, wild-haired kids.
article_snippet.sent: Ella and her younger sister, Alice grew up watching Ella and her younger sister, Alice mother compete in races and Ella had asked to sign up for Ella own.
article_snippet.sent: Still, as Ella and her younger sister, Alice laid out everything Ella'd need the next day, Kate Parker, a photographer, could tell Ella was afraid.
article_snippet.sent: Parker Kate Parker asked Ella, now 9.
article_snippet.sent: As Ella pulled the image up on Ella screen, Ella got chills from Ella 's direct stare.
article_snippet.sent: Ella looked, Kate Parker said, like "a little badass."
article_snippet.sent: You're going to be totally fine," Kate Parker showed Ella.
article_snippet.sent: The next day, Ella participated in Ella race, and loved it.
article_snippet.sent: Looking back, "I wanted Ella to remember that Ella was scared and Ella went through with it, sort of as a memento of Ella conquering a fear, " said Parker, who lives near Atlanta.