Lynn Smith

You'd think it's like the World Cup finals.

So imagine you're nine and you're playing in this game and you see parents losing their mind.

if something like a ball has been kicked and it didn't make the goal.

And you're thinking to yourself, like what pressure that must put on a kid to be perfect and get the goal and always win and always get A's.

And it's become way more than I was born in the late seventies.

So when it was the nineties and I was in school, there was, you know, like get good grades.

But my mom was like,

Just don't get C's.

I'm like, okay.

Now it's if you don't get A plus 4.75, you're not going to go to college.

That kind of pressure.

Then they get to college and they're already burnt out.

Why do we think there's such a mental health crisis?

Not only are we burning out our kids so young.

But we're then sticking social media in front of them to hold a mirror of perfectionism that everybody is pretending to have the great lifestyle and the private jet vacations and all of that.

So it's like the perfect storm of a failed experiment of this hustle culture.

If we can begin to have a greater conversation, which I think that we are in so many other ways, we're starting to realize that this is not achievable.

But if our children can learn at a very young age that failure is inevitable and actually it's exciting because when you fail, you've learned something and then you're one step closer to not failing and succeeding.

And, you know, when there's a lost game instead of you're going to win next time, it's it was so fun to watch you.

That must be disappointing that we didn't win, but it was so fun to watch you.