Training is expensive, and a lot of kids don't get trained, perhaps. So I also identify with the kid or the person who has grown up in environments like I've grown up in.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
I'm a grown-up now, and I value the training I had.
The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
If you don't get trained for your SATs in America today, you are at a disadvantage. Training is expensive and a lot of kids don't get trained, perhaps. So I also identify with the kid or the person who has grown up in environments like I've grown up in.
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
I'm not the pedigree kid. I'm not classically trained. I didn't come from the fancy home, no.
Each kid has a different level of expertise and some of them are very raw and inexperienced and some are incredibly mature and experienced. So you just have to go with what they are rather than have some abstract technique that you're going to try to apply to them.
For me personally, the way I've been trained, just through life experience - the harder something is, the harder you have to work for it, the more worthwhile it is, and you just have to know that going in.
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Every situation I have ever been in I have been trained for, and I dealt with it to the best of my abilities.