Baseball And Life

To anyone with kids of any age, or anyone who has ever been
a kid, here's some advice Bill Gates dished out at a high school speech about 11 things they did not learn in school. He talks about how "feel- good" politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.

What does this have to do with baseball? This great sport requires a work ethic and teaches life skills. There is an inner toughness that baseball teaches in a similar fashion. Anyway, baseball is hard, get used to it.

Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it.

Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3: You will NOT make 40 thousand dollars a year right
out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car
phone, until you earn both.

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your
grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they
called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't
whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring
as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills,
cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents' generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and
losers but life has not. In some schools they have abolished
failing grades and they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. (Real life is divided
into innings. Sorry, couldn't help it.) You don't get summers
off and very few employers are interested in helping you find
yourself. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

You may want to printthis out and put it on our refrigerator for your son to see everyday.