In the book Outcasts United the soccer team has to raise money. They only have a small amount left to go and question why they can’t just ask their parents to give the remaining money to the team because surely they would. Luma, the coach, told them that they could not ask their parents to give them the money because they needed to do it on their own. She said that they could not ask their parents to help them with everything and that they should start to become more independent now.
This relates to college very well. Now that we are college students we are more independent. The majority of college students live on their own, away from their parents. We cannot always just rely on our parents to help us when we need it; we can’t expect them to give us money if we don’t have any. We need to learn to provide for ourselves so that when we are older and have our own families, we can properly support them. While parents are usually always willing to bail us out of trouble and fix our problems, we need to learn for ourselves how to deal with things that life throws at us.
By not asking their parents for the money, the boys learned independence. By not calling our parents every time we need something, we are learning independence. Ultimately, parents will always help their children however they can, but one of the greatest ways to learn independence is experience not having parents clean up our messes so to speak.
Nice connection!
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