Its all about priorities. I mean, c'mon. What do we teach our kids to prepare them for life in the workplace:
1) Do your job because others are counting on you.
2) Cooperate to achieve a higher goal.
3) Focus on your job. Nothing else is as important as getting the job done right the first time.
4) Concentrate, perform, adjust, adapt, achieve.
5) If you fail, your team fails, and failure is not an option.
How many times did the kid implore his mom to stop interfering with what he was doing? I quote:
"You're messing me up! Stop it! You're messing me up!"
"I have to have it up loud! I have to!"
"Mom! This is important! You're messing me up!"
The kid was simply preparing himself for the work environment, where immediate actions matter and the unemployment line is only a quarterly result away.
Given this context, just how important was bedtime? How many of you have stayed up late to study for a big test, or finish up a report, or complete a job to meet a deadline? Which was more important - getting those 8 hours of rest or achieving your goal?
But his mom probably wouldn't understand those things, because her priority was simply to attend to his physical growth, not his mental conditioning.
What she saw as a simple game was something much more complex. It was an exercise to prepare the boy for college, and his future in the workplace.
Funny that he would request chocolate milk instead of Mountain Dew. Chocolate milk has some nutritional content and would probably knock that kid out cold inside of an hour. Mountain Dew would fuel his addiction for a good 3 hours.
Now shut up and bring me a Red Bull!
