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<blockquote data-quote="Battle89" data-source="post: 2028141" data-attributes="member: 748721"><p>Not just bad but nonsensical. He was a starter! Not like a Podz / minutes situation where he was buried on the bench. AM was not our 'featured' player, but he certainly was a big part of that team.</p><p></p><p>I may get admonished by the "they're just kids / he's only 18 / brains don't fully develop until mid-20s" crowd, but he needed to trust his own gut more and his mom's and handlers' guts less. I realize AM and I likely grew up in different environments, but early teens is when I stopped treating everything my folks said as gospel and by late teens virtually all decision-making was mine. And that's not a knock on my parents or their choices, I just figured it was time to be responsible for my own decisions and consequences.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Battle89, post: 2028141, member: 748721"] Not just bad but nonsensical. He was a starter! Not like a Podz / minutes situation where he was buried on the bench. AM was not our 'featured' player, but he certainly was a big part of that team. I may get admonished by the "they're just kids / he's only 18 / brains don't fully develop until mid-20s" crowd, but he needed to trust his own gut more and his mom's and handlers' guts less. I realize AM and I likely grew up in different environments, but early teens is when I stopped treating everything my folks said as gospel and by late teens virtually all decision-making was mine. And that's not a knock on my parents or their choices, I just figured it was time to be responsible for my own decisions and consequences. [/QUOTE]
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