[Husker] Casey Martinez Talks to the LA Times (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Robert Christensen]

It has taken me a long time to learn that I had to be responsible for my 
own actions.  For the most part today I can do pretty well with that.  A 
much harder lesson for me to learn is that its ok to let my kids fail at 
times.  I can be supportive of them as they work through their failures, 
but they have been the BIG losers when I refuse to let them fail.

I too was a teacher.  I have caught heck from parents of very capable 
but under achieving students because they didn't want the kid to receive 
the credit they earned.  When the kid gets to college and into the real 
world they will have even more difficulty learning those lessons they 
should have learned growing up.

It seems that is maybe one lesson that Casey Martinez still has to 
learn.  Our kids will go through tough times in their life.  We hate to 
see it, but its reality.

Bob from the Sandhills

On 12/30/2010 10:05 AM, Kathy Jackson wrote:
> I have to agree.  Maybe because my Dad grew up on a ranch and was 20 years in the Army I see where you are coming from.  I teach high school kids, and it is becoming more common for a student who has difficulty with something to just give up and not try anymore.  Several years ago I had a student that frankly, was not the sharpest tool in the shed, but this student refused to give up.  She had a goal and whatever she had to do to achieve that goal she was going to do.  You gotta love a kid like that.
>
> Kathy Jackson
>
> On Dec 30, 2010, at 8:27 AM, Baker, Glenn R LTC MIL USA TRADOC wrote:
>
>> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
>> Caveats: FOUO
>>
>> Taylor needs to man up and be a leader.  I see this in our military so
>> many times it freaking kills me where kids just don't man up and fight
>> through the pain or other issues.  I watched my father damn near cut his
>> foot off with a chainsaw.  He told me to go get a rag so he could stop
>> the bleeding and continue to saw wood.  I knew right then and there to
>> never be a wimp especially around my dad who grew up on a farm in
>> Antelope County Nebraska. Our society has become a nation of wimps.  The
>> wussification continues with no end in sight.  I watched my son
>> dislocate his shoulder from the stands in high school and I am very
>> close with him but I did not rush to his side and baby him his mother
>> was another story.  If you can't take an occasional tongue lashing then
>> you might be in the wrong business. I can't tell you how many times I
>> have gotten my ass chewed out.  Take it like a man, learn from it and
>> drive on.
>>
>> V/R
>>
>> LTC Glenn R. Baker
>> National Simulation Center
>> LESD Exercise Analyst
>> 410 Kearney Avenue- Building 45
>> Fort Leavenworth, KS 66027
>> phone- 913-684-8185
>> fax- 913-684-8171
>> e-mail- glenn.baker at conus.army.mil
>>
>
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