@allysonschwab@Claunchinator while they are under our roof, we just push those lessons forward into adulthood when they can be harder to learn and more painful. Sports as a whole and wrestling in particular are excellent opportunities for those lessons.
@allysonschwab@Claunchinator You hit the nail on the head as a mom when you wrote “not just on the mat, but in everyday life”. As parents we hope to use the everyday ups and downs to teach a lifetime of lessons they can carry into adulthood. If we shield them for the downs..
@CMeroKennedy@SirCensorLot I feel AI is taking the over the role of this aspect of genius. Sadly, it’s a primary role of a teacher and of a mentor. I fear teaching and mentoring will be diminished because of this one aspect, sacrificing the paramount importance of human relationship.
@TheAndyVogel@JustinJBasch From what I can tell that is the guidance the NCAA has put out for now. I think they plan to make the specifics official in August. Will they suspend the September 1st cutoff for this class and allow them all to have 5 in 5? Idk.
@TheAndyVogel@JustinJBasch The rule, as it stands now, says the class of 2026 entering college this fall can follow either rule. For those who turned 19 before Sep 1, 2025: under new rule their senior year was year 1 of the 5 in 5 & the old rule allows for 4 seasons in 5 years. Either way only 4 seasons.
⚡️The deeper signal is youth risk did not disappear.
It migrated inward.
Teen drinking fell because the old physical world of adolescence got dismantled. Alcohol belonged to a social ecosystem: unsupervised time, cars, parties, local jobs, malls, basements, boredom, flirting, older siblings, house gatherings, and the chaotic peer world where teenagers learned who they were by colliding with other people in real space.
That ecosystem was replaced by phones, surveillance, parental tracking, algorithmic entertainment, social anxiety, online status games, and a much thinner physical commons.
So the surface looks healthier. Fewer kids drinking. Fewer kids using weed. Fewer kids doing reckless things in public.
The hidden layer looks worse. The young are less reckless because they are less socially embodied. Less initiation. Less unsupervised friction. Less courage-building. Less embarrassment and recovery. Less real dating. Less independence. Less contact with the physical world before adulthood demands it.
The old teenage world produced damage, stupidity, alcohol abuse, pregnancy risk, fights, accidents, and bad decisions. No need to romanticize it. But it also produced social reps. It forced young people through discomfort. It made them practice attraction, rejection, conflict, reputation, risk, repair, and status in the open.
The new world suppresses visible risk while increasing invisible fragility.
That is the trade.
A teenager can avoid drinking, avoid parties, avoid sex, avoid driving, avoid real confrontation, avoid rejection, avoid shame, avoid danger, and still arrive at 23 emotionally underbuilt. Cleaner behavior does not automatically mean stronger formation.
This is why the marriage chart and the teen drinking chart are the same story at different stages. People are not suddenly failing to pair in adulthood. The whole pathway into embodied adulthood has been slowing for years before marriage even becomes the question.
The real truth: society solved part of the teen vice problem by shrinking the arena where teenagers become adults.
It took away the dangerous commons and replaced it with controlled isolation.
The result is safer kids with weaker initiation into real life.
@r0ck3t23 I homeschooled 7 children until high school and can attest to the fact that literal years of time are wasted in traditional school, not just in academics, but in all other metrics of development. It’s why adulthood is so delayed and keeps getting worse
@MichaelARothman@grhdhp My teenage son was taught the use of the — by his middle school English tutor. He lamented yesterday that he would have to find an alternative to it in college next year because no one thinks a current student even knows what one is—and therefore must be AI. Poor guy loved it.
@MikeWalsh615763@FareedZakaria He finished with this: Democrats must rediscover the lost art of simple competence—and they can prove it to the entire nation by governing well in places like big cities where they are in charge.
@MikeWalsh615763@FareedZakaria He started by stating the dems’ shutdown was abysmal failure. Then said dems’ image as feckless is best seen in democrat run cities. Then cited a bunch of examples of how the dem leaders of these cities/states have failed. Mostly by pouring more money into gov with worse results
@MemphisWSoccer My daughter played for Coach Monaghan a few years ago. I was impressed by how cohesive his team was back then and agree that he not only chose the best leaders but also did a great job of setting them up to succeed by encouraging and listening.
@wadadli_albany@bennyjohnson There’s somewhere around 2500 black students at Ole Miss (grok) Over 14,000 students requested a ticket which is more than half of their student body. The pavilion holds just under 10,000. Black conservative numbers are rising but still a very small number.