There is no manual to parenting:
• Pastors have raised thieves
• Drug cartels have raised righteous men
• Billionaires have raised drug addicts
• Strict disciplinarians have raised wild rebels
• Permissive parents have raised highly disciplined kids
• Atheists have raised devoted pastors
• Single mothers have raised strong responsible fathers
• Criminal fathers have raised honest police officers
• Highly educated parents have raised school dropouts
• Illiterate parents have raised professors
Parenting is unpredictable.
You can do everything “right” and still get a bad result. You can do everything “wrong” and raise a champion.
Focus on being a strong example, not following some perfect manual that doesn’t exist.
@Darko_Baba Also we need defenders with balls! ,3 more defenders with good chemistry and monster mentality and we just might be cooking! We need quality in all areas! And imo I don't think Raya is much better than Sanchez, just a modern day Victor Valdez, so technically both are shit but
@Darko_Baba Bro I've watch this crop of strikers get bullied by defenders for far too long! We need quality up top! Somebody who can drive fear into defenders! If you're not doing that as a striker then wtf are you doing?
My daughter came home from third grade crying. Not regular crying. The kind that comes from somewhere deep. Took an hour to get it out of her. Boy in her class. New kid. Wore the same shirt 3days in a row. Kids noticed. Started saying things. She’d tried to defend him. They turned on her too.
Asked her what she wanted to do. She thought about it. “Can we get him some shirts?” Went to the store that night. She picked them out. 5 shirts. Nothing fancy. Just clean. New. Asked the school counselor to give them to the family quietly. Didn’t want anyone to know it was us.
Counselor called back. Family was living in their car. Mom and 3 kids. Shirts weren’t the only thing they needed. Started a fund at the school. Anonymous. Other families contributed. Got them into temporary housing. Then permanent. Mom got a job. Stabilized.
My daughter saw the boy wearing one of the shirts 2 weeks later. Came home different. “He smiled at me today. Real smile. Not the fake kind.”
@Darko_Baba Soon they'll realize it doesn't matter who's on the pitch as long as they're willing to die for the badge. I called Enzo to Madrid two seasons ago when Kroos retired because the direction we were heading in looked like a disaster waiting to happen