Dr. Christy Bock

Do you know that there are so many studies that kids who work during college have way higher grade point averages because

because they learn how to manage their time.

They learn that, okay, I have to wake up and do this and have a test the next morning.

I probably, oh, and I have to work after that.

I probably shouldn't stay up drinking all night long.

So, I mean, it's just one of those things that we're trying to insulate them and let them focus on what they need to focus on.

It's the worst thing you could do.

That life experience you got by being a mechanic, being able to do those kinds of things, that prepared you so much more for life.

And we don't think, like even college sports, I laugh because my son played D1 hockey.

And I laugh at how much parents are like, they're going to go and they're going to, you know,

we're going to, they're going to get a scholarship and they're going to do, we focus so much on that with all these parents who put a hundred percent into their kids' sports and live vicariously through their kids.

But yet their kids, when they get to college, most of my son's friends from his hockey team, they didn't graduate because it is so hard to manage your time, to be able to play a high level sport, to be able to go to practices at 6am, to be able, I mean, there's so many things.

Oh, oh yeah.

And you got to keep your grades up.

oh yeah, and if you're not doing well, you need to then go to mandatory tutoring, which, when, where?

And we just, it's funny, because we expect so much of these kids, but yet, we're not giving them the tools they need to be able to succeed, so.

jada you have to do this you have to do that uh soccer should be the only thing that you're focusing on and then as soon as it was time for her to autonomy she's like i don't want to play soccer anymore well because they're so burnt out yeah they're so burnt i mean i remember these kids that had so like way better talent than my son did they're like i don't want to play they're they're like i'm done and so it is definitely one of those things that you know we do burn our own kids out and we're not giving them the tools they need to be able to succeed

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