RJM posted:What's different between the example and getting a job, an apartment and having to get up for work? I didn't like getting up early for work any more than I liked getting up early to work out for baseball. But both were responsibilities I signed up for.
It's the starkness of the transition that I'm thinking about and what you can do as a parent to help prepare the kid for that stark transition so that when they get to college athletics, it doesn't come as the least bit of surprise and they are fully ready to deal.