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Originally Posted by BIG_DADDY
My kid is 11 and is on top of everything from school to athletics. He rocks at Judo and Jiu-Jitsu. He started training with a top wrestling coach and even does crossfit. They are already recruiting him at Palo Alto high school. He knows I am serious about military school should he go that direction. All that said it is hard as hell because weed is everywhere here. School after this year is a hard decision. We may even homeschool. I will do my best to keep him out of those circles. With all that said the most talented Judo kid I have ever seen threw it all away at 18. He moved out of his parents house to live in a small dump with his friends and get faded all day. He was a national champion with Olympic gold written all over him. Broke his dads heart. Walked away from a career, fame and an inheritance all to smoke weed with his buddies all day in ghetto ass house in a bad neighborhood. God help me if my kid does that. I also know 2 kids who got their blue belt at 16 and had not lost a match in years in jiu-jitsu. Their parents were not people of means. They both started smoking a lot of weed and quit 3 years ago. One is dead and the other was living out of his car last I heard. Really sad.
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Maybe the kid felt he was being forced into just and just lashed out after he couldn't be forced to do it anymore. He finally had a chance to rebel and overdid it. Sounds like the dad was over parenting and too controlling to me which led to the kid going wild at 18.
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