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.