Parents taking over their childs life

Reading Gym Candy brought out something important in that happens in real life parents living their dreams through their children. In the book Mike’s father was a star in college but didn’t have the same success in the NFL. When he had his first child which was a son he took no time giving his little boy a football and telling him to try to run and get pass him. His son was very young at the time but he did not care he wanted his son to have every advantage in the game that he could. His father even went to the extreme to hold his son out a grade so that he could be a year older than the rest of the players in like pee wee league. All of this put pressure on his son and made mike want to do anything to make his father pound. In America people like this really exist driving their kids to the dirt, taking away their child hood away from them at a young age. This happens to a lot of kids, dealing with sports, or pageants even boy scouts with their derby race cars. Being passionate about a sport is one thing but trying to enforce every little detail about a sport to a child is ridiculous. Mike Johnson was not the first child that this unfortunate childhood has happen to and he will not be the last. When a parent is driven to make their child the next star it could be ruining their child’s life.

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My book really talks about how a good player starts to look for an advantage over the completion in football. It really has two issues, the first is how hard it is to impress your parents Mike wasn’t to make his dad proud and be able to succeed in the next level that his dad was not able to do. Since he was little mike’s dad wanted to leave his dream through his son so he push him all the way every day until mike didn’t want to do anything but please his dad. A lot of parents do this push their kids so hard. They don’t do this just in sports but pageants singing anything that they can give them satisfaction that they help get there child to the top. The next would be steroids which has hit sports really hard in football, baseball and even the Olympics. Some athletes that where headed to the hall of fame, and later to find out they tested positive for steroids later. Then it comes out that your favorite athlete isn’t as great as you would have thought he or she was. Athlete’s being on steroids have been a hot subject lately almost everybody in sports today that have put up big numbers in the game have either dealt with steroids or taken it. A lot of them that have got caught have blamed getting hurt and steroids have help them get better but it all is the same it helps you in the game but hurt you in the long run.

The Main Character

My main charter is a daddy’s boy. He does anything to make his daddy happy even when he was a baby and his daddy would not let him go through him and he started to cry, his daddy said there no crying in football instantly he stop crying and proved he could get through his father. His father is the reason why he is not in the right grade his father held him back so that he could have the advantage in pee wee football. He didn’t like the fact that he was older than everybody but his dad told him that it would benefit him in the game and he accepted the fact and went with it. From the begging of the story he was born a follower he never had a chance to decide what he wanted his father said he likes football so that is what he is going to do. His mother tried to give him an opportunity to do something but he said he was having fun just playing football which was what his father did in college but didn’t succeed in the National Football League. Every time somebody talked bad about his father he always wanted to defend his dad by saying they don’t like him because he embarrassed them in a game. He always over did his dad stories he would pump them up make them sound better than what it was. He wants to be able to be like his dad but make it the league and do well to unlike his dad.