It's 5th grade, Darby has recently settled on becoming an engineer one day. He's getting anxious about the costs of college, and considering playing tennis in hopes of earning a scholarship.
This week, they started a Geograbee....If anyone makes it through the one week round and answers the geography questions correctly, they go on to another round, and another until they get to the finalists round. The winner at the end of this is awarded $50k is college tuition. Darby was REALLY excited about this...this could solve all his worries if he won! He's passed the last few days, but he needs to make it through todays round and he's overly anxious he might miss out. I told him he needs to get really good at losing before he gets good at winning. Successful people are always successful losers first. Get good at losing and you'll get even better at succeeding one day.
Now, he's thinking maybe he'll be a scientist instead of an engineer....but of course he's worried about the costs of schooling for scientists as well and wants to know how much money it will be. My job is to let him know we'll figure out a way...he would make a great engineer, and a great scientist , and a great everything if he continues working hard in school. How did this kid get so anxious about his future and money? Totally different then Cooper.
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