Becoming a Crazy Parent

I see the type of parent I'm becoming. and it scares me I'm Chris in a Mudcats. game in Zebulon North Carolina Good. Mythical. [Music]. Morning Good Mythical Morning this. episode is brought to you by the red. Link store that's right people. announcing it right now it's happening. you can get the official Good Mythical. Morning t-shirt oh it's got the Tre.

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excited about my son's diving. career oh gosh okay is this going to be. like so this going to be like a bragging. episode my son no this this this is. actually this could be a cautionary tale. so so to speak okay maybe to myself. maybe to you if you're a parent maybe to. you if you're just a person in general. mhm uh most people are people in general. by the way mhm put that on a buffer. sticker Homo Sapien my son Lo he's eight.

and uh we haven't done a lot of. competitive Sports and one of the. reasons is you know we've moved we've. moved out here and you kind of just kind. of feeling your way around things and he. enjoys sport as the as the Brits say or. Sports as the Americans say but it not. so much he enjoys video games more you. know what I'm saying it's like when you. ask him what he wants to be when he. grows up professional video gamer is one. of the very serious options at this. point okay you know he's not like I want. to be a baseball player or whatever we. we haven't done a lot of competitive.

Sports which tells me that you're. already failing him as a parent yeah. right well that concerned me a little. bit when he said that I was like lo you. don't want to be a professional video. gamer that's that's like something you. fall back on if something everything. else goes wrong that's you know it's not. something to Aspire to be a scientist or. something don't be an Entertainer and we. don't need the competition that's true. but so you decide tooll him in. competitive diving well they have a. diving class over at the public pool. just really close to our house.

and they you you're like okay you can. choose the diving class or the water. water polo class and like l so you chose. it out of convenience well actually they. another point for your parenting they do. diving every single day so it wasn't. very convenient so for six weeks it was. every single day from two to 3:00 he had. to go over to the pool but it's close by. so it's not a big deal and I was like. you know this is good for lock this this. is something you can build some. confidence and I do think you'll have a. natural aptitude for this but you know. let's just see how it goes so the way. that work it works is they have the.

class every single day then every Sunday. morning like really early Sunday morning. they have the. meat which is just the kids from the. couple of regions around here come to. this pool and so there's in his seven to. eight-year-old group there's you know. like six or seven other kids now are we. talking cannonballs or no no cannonballs. cannonballs is not part of diving what. is that called cuz I'd like to enroll my. children in that that's called like. Backyard Barbecue Funtime diving okay. make the biggest Flash.

yeah you're actually trying to minimize. the splash which that was new to me. actually I don't I did know that because. I watch the Olympics you make a little. splash that's what you're going for but. it's like they do a like in his age. group he's never done any sort of tried. to do any flips or any kind of thing so. like a actual flip and landing on your. feet which you would never do in the. Olympics if you did it would be a big. failure whoops uh they that's actually. one of the things is a flip that you. land on your feet and then a dive and a. back dive well anyway so we're doing. this all summer and he's showing some. aptitude for it it he's getting like.

second third or fourth place like all. summer amongst this small group of kids. who are all kind of beginning right but. then they tell us hey he's also hitting. his chin on the diving board he did a. back flip and landed right on the thing. but then they're like oh hey this that's. aptitude this Saturday they're having. the big meat where they bring in kids. from five different regions and they. give out medals and I'm like okay well. this is going to be good let's just go. let him be a part of this he's going to. learn what it's like to lose you know. you didn't tell him that no I didn't I'm. think this okay I'm like if you can't.

get in the top if you can't get the top. spot when when it's just your pool kids. you're not going to get the top spots. when they bring everybody in right and. giving out medals and stuff MH so anyway. lock is like I want to be good at this I. want to do well so I take him over to. the pool ahead of time I take him over. there and I do like the father SL coach. kind of thing and I sit there and we go. through it and he's got a great attitude. I'm not forcing him into this he's like. I want to be good at this I want to stay. until I get it right so I was like this. is great he's he's got some attit ude.

about this a good attitude and so we. practice and practice practice I'm like. he's getting pretty good at this I mean. and then all a sudden I start have my. mind goes to all these places I'm like. he's going to be an Olympian you know. it's like we're out there at the pool. and he's been diving for five weeks and. he's doing the flips and stuff and I'm. thinking he's gonna we got to get him a. speedo you know we're going to have to. go to London or wherever they're going. to be get a sponsor you know yeah right. yeah Speedo sponsors us next week and. I'm freaking out a little bit on the. inside I'm like then I'm thinking about. those parents that I see at the Olympics.

and thinking about how they get all into. it I'm like hold on just oh yeah like. the the viral video of the gymnastics. parents that. like just like that but then I said hold. on a second he hasn't even won anything. yet this is just the big meat day you. know so big meat day we go out there. he's got to do three Dives he does the. first one I'm like well great job that's. the best I've seen you do on the front. dive give him some good scores okay he. does the back di I'm like wow that was. really good and then he does the back he.

does the front flip he gets a 6.5 from. one of the judges seven is the highest. score you can get I haven't heard a 6.5. all year long and so then I'm like hold. on a second he might actually get a. medal and by by this time I've got the. camera out and I'm like filming. everything I'm like that Dad I'm like. give me a smile at the camera and I'm. I'm down at the water I'm becoming that. parent that I always used to make fun of. uh and so then they say and they give. third place and then second place and. I'm like well he didn't even get he's. not even placing and then they said and. coming in in first place with a score of.

so and so so and so lock. mlin and then it's just like I'm like. what we won and they're like you fainted. no I didn't faint I I probably didn't. even do that I just was like had the. camera up on him I'm like filming. everything I'm like up there at the. scores table with the camera I'm like in. my in Lock's face I'm like how do you. feel son you know I'm I'm totally into. it and all the other parents are like. get this wacko out of here and then they. say your son has to be ready for the. huge meat in Long Beach oh the next. level we didn't we thought we were done.

we're going to the next level and so now. I'm really thinking about oh my do we. want to commit to this I mean is he. going to be good at this or we going to. be like on camera at the Olympics one. day and then I start thinking well maybe. I don't want him to be good at this. maybe I should sabotage this yeah cuz. you don't want to be that guy in the. viral video looks like an idiot right. and that's really what matters here it's. me yeah it's it's me in my life matters. you know I I guess I'm with you in terms. of not being a great parent I have not. but we did some competitive soering back.

in North Carolina but yeah like I said. things have kind of slowed down with all. the transition I have not enrolled my. kids in anything competitive I think the. main reason is because as a kid. everything competitive that I did in. athletics I absolutely hated like I. remember playing t-ball and being in the. Outfield and they would put me in left. field where the ball never goes right. that's left field or is that right field. right field right field right field is. where the ball never goes that's where. they put me yeah cuz lefties I re I.

remember literally praying to God when. every person came out to that the ball. would not be hit to me that's how. anxious I was and I could catch the ball. I couldn't hit worth of crap but I would. crowd the plate so much that they would. bean me that's the only way I got on. plate all year B though that was bold. yeah I was like wow I don't want to I. got to get on plate this is the only way. I know how to do it but I would pray how. pathetic is that Prett pae even in.

soccer which we've already established. that I was a star yeah at that I would. you know I would I would I would pray. that the ball wouldn't come to me or if. I would kick the ball and it would go. the right way I would be like yes really. yes and I just had so much anxiety so. now with my kids I think there's a. proclivity to keep them from competition. good word because I don't I don't want. their self-esteem to be damaged in the. way that I felt like mine was you don't. want them to be vated yeah V that's. vated that's exactly what I'm saying but. you know Lincoln Lincoln really likes.

baseball and I mean Lily doesn't really. like the compet we did actually did. basketball too for a little bit Yeah and. um Lincoln didn't want to play. basketball when he did when they said he. had to wear shorts he said I'll only. play if I can wear pants yeah like. warm-ups and then and he's 5 years old. but I don't know what it was it was just. something weird you know okay you can. play in pants and he was like no I'm I'm. out of this he wanted to look like he. was warming up the whole time because it. catches everybody else I'm not even. trying Hey I'm not playing I'm who you. know laying it up so I'm proud of lock.

you know maybe I should get my kids into. some sport let overcome my anxieties I'm. not looking to sabotage my son's diving. career for those of you who don't. understand sarcasm I always have to. clarify I'm sorry because I just can't. take it but you got to watch what you. get your kids involved in yeah but you. do have to think about the Natural. Evolution of this thing if he if he is. really good if he does have this. aptitude and this proclivity as you. speak for Lily I mean I I didn't really. want her to get involved in dancing. because I mean what's the logical. conclusion of Dance dancing it involves.

a PO and it doesn't involve a playground. you know what I'm saying that's what I. think so I mean have you seen these kids. dancing and shaking their booty it's. like a freaking club it's a little. inappropriate so yeah I mean no offense. to you dancers out there that's just my. perspective as an overprotective father. of a daughter the speedo the diving. Speedo is is a little bit flashy I don't. want to do that either I mean I think. she should you know she she's playing. piano and she could do that. competitively um I'm comfortable with. that here's where I'm here's where I'm. landing on this and we'll wrap up is I I.

you know I I was so happy I was so proud. as a father to see him succeed his coach. picked him up and put him on his. shoulder and lot gave this number one. and we took a picture of it and it's. just this moment in history and I was. like I suddenly found myself going from. I don't want to be that Dad to yeah. we're going to Long Beach we're going to. cross the competition that's love right. talking trash about the other kids talk. trash about the other kids yeah I'm. sorry I did when the other kids screw up. I'm like and my wife is like be quiet. I'm not going to sit next to you anymore.

all right let us know in the comments. what are you involved in competitively. or if you're a parent how did you decide. what your kids should be involved in. competitively we still need your. suggestions for the wheel of mythicality. so we can figure out what we need to do. here we go try to get the last word well. that would be easy to do thanks for. watching yeah we love you and it's and. this is the ending and sometimes we you.

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