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The best advice I ever get, I ignore.
Of course, that makes the other guy right. But, respect equals a relationship. At least we’re talking again when they tell me they told me so.
No parent wants their child to fail. Neither does anyone want to see someone trip over something obvious.
Well, some people do…
I remember one of the high points of my training at the Naval Base in Chicago, Illinois was when we went out marching in the dregs of winter. The black ice was a real trip, and if you weren’t a ninja, you would never see it coming.
The thing about marching in uniform is that you can only see the guy in front of you, so unless that man slipped on the ice, you were gonna be the unlucky recruit.
Boy was it funny watching the guy in front of me slip; that prepared me to act natural over the ice, and then hear the guy behind me curse as he went down, literally falling for my seemingly ninja footwork.
So, I was guilty in that regard.
It can be scary, letting your own kid learn their lesson.
Today everyone is just so more willing to shelter their children, acting like they will better handle things when they are more grown-up.