Jamal Merrell

That's just like the learning curve.

It's how, I mean, I'm speaking ahead because now I have a youth program.

So I see the kids that are on the field or on the basketball court and they're just sad.

They're drained.

They're not having fun.

So now that tells me something's happening inside the household to where I'm not getting through this kid or this kid's not even interacting or having fun with other kids because whatever's happening in the household is so detrimental to their outside lifestyle.

So now me growing up,

to answer the question is I dealt with all that in my household, discipline, structured, even like just getting cussed out.

A lot of people today would say verbal abuse, but at the same time, outside the house, like me now, that shaped me.

I would never say there's a fine line or there was crossing the limits because

I loved it, me being now, because now I am a parent, and I took it and I shaped it up to what was negative, what was right, how my mom and dad talked to me in this moment, how they disciplined me in this moment, and now I'm being a parent.

I can mold it into how I want to talk to my kids, how I want to discipline my kids, how I want to show love to my kids and be affectionate to my kids, and it's propelling my kids to who they are now.

100%.

I tell all my parents in my youth leagues, let your kid be a kid.

Like, let them fail.

Let them go through adversity without you structuring them.

100%.

We'll go right to Dick's Sporting Goods and get two lacrosse sticks.

And I'll be like, let's go in the backyard.

Let's go.