Mature and positive attitude is the winner

The first thing a child discovers after learning that the world revolves around them and that everyone thinks they’re amazing is that it doesn’t and they don’t.

Dealing with the disappointments that life dumps on us is part of growing up — an often painful part that naturally puts parents into protective drive. Sometimes overdrive.

The court case taken by a teenage soccer player against his local club for post-traumatic stress disorder after he allegedly failed to get enough match time to give him a chance of catching the eye of an English football club scout shows how sometimes parents need to stay on the sidelines of their children’s lives.