My oldest son began this week Living out His dream. He played baseball through high school and got a lot of NAIA, D3 and other smaller college scholarship offers, yet he said either D1 or nothing. Because his dream was to coach. He even was offered a preferred walk-on at the local D1 until the Fall and the coach decided not to have tryouts for walk-ons. So he just moved on with life and continued to turn down small college offers even up until this fall against dad's advice.
This week, he began to live out his dream of coaching. It is not a big job but it is a beginning to his dream. He will be the head coach of the largest middle school in TN as a junior in college. I saw a joy the last two days that I'm not sure I ever saw as a player, especially at practice.
I write this to remind some of us as I was reminded this week. It is not our dream but their dreams that count. He is doing what he wants not what I want.
BTW, the head baseball coach at the D1 school's son now plays for my son and my son loves him. Life has a way working out.
On a different note, my middle son has a different dream. He will move a step closet to that this weekend by being the Saturday starter as a freshman for The Citadel.
Just a reminder: Let them live out their dreams. Our jobs as parents is just to give them the opportunities to the best of our ability.
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