Scott Payne

So I have somewhat of a theory.

I'd love to hear it.

And this is coming from years of being in the training environment, right?

I used to be the one getting trained, and you still get trained.

I can always learn.

I love learning.

I love spreading knowledge.

I love gaining knowledge.

Even here I am at 54 years old.

But over the years, you see, like, I think it's very natural for a parent to want their kid to do better than they ever did, whether they had it good or not.

You want your kid to have it better.

um and then we went through this whole regime where it was a lot of helicopter parenting which look i'm not knocking it you raise your family however you want to but as far as being a trainer or somebody hiring law enforcement you know i'm talking to sheriff's offices and the local police departments and we're all sitting around like not a campfire but basically a campfire conversation saying man tell me about these cadets that are coming in now what are they oh nobody can ever speak to me that way and you're like

then you don't need to become a cop because you're going to get spit on, you're going to get yelled at, cursed.

And so you started seeing that, in my opinion, the helicopter parenting, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but nobody ever really gets, oh, my gosh, are you okay?

You just fell over.

Oh, are you okay?

Are you okay?

Well, that instills things.

If anybody would study child psychology, you will learn where the brain's developing at certain years and whether or not at five years old you should be playing a very, very graphic game

shoot them up game.