Shannon Sharp
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But a lot of times we see the behavior.
And kids, people, kids think about now, oh, my son going to the NFL.
My son going to be a Major League Baseball player.
My son going to be a basketball player.
Let the kid, let a kid be a kid.
You, you're not supposed to look at your child as a paycheck.
You're not supposed to look at your child as the way out.
You couldn't do it.
So now you're going to put that, Hey, hopefully the child embraces and wants to be that whatever he or she chooses.
And then you nudge them along in that direction.
Don't, Hey.
This is what you want to do.
And my son very early on, he said, Dad, this ain't me.
This ain't what I want.
Yes.
You talk about prodigies, though.
But if you go back and think about it, go back and listen to the parent.
The kid was excited to get up the next day to go do it again.
They never had to force the child to go do it.
They never like, come on, Tiger, you got to get up.