I swam in college and started in the pre title nine in 1973. I swam at UCLA with 3 women who had been in the 72 Olympics. I was very excited and also noted I was doing the “same” workout as them. That motivated me. I transferred to Cal state Northridge for my three final years and had the same coach as the men’s team, who was actually quite good. We swam with the men and did a lot of the same workouts. We had one team mate that developed anorexia, but everyone else seemed to have no mental health issues, (at least to my uneducated self). Current college kids have grown up with a lot of parent involvement and have to deal with separation from them in addition to college, which can contribute to anxiety . My grandkids are headed to college in the next three years and the parents are really trying hard to help them develop independence and self worth, so we will see how this goes
Yeah, I think there's something to the parental involvement and expectations -- instead of just letting kids do whatever, there are some studies linking free play (like the running around making up games) to developing self-regulation skills, etc. I think there's also something to all of that being wrapped up in messaging around you always being a brand/social media/how you present yourself. I feel like I was very on the early start of all that coming up through high school and am glad I missed it!
I swam in college and started in the pre title nine in 1973. I swam at UCLA with 3 women who had been in the 72 Olympics. I was very excited and also noted I was doing the “same” workout as them. That motivated me. I transferred to Cal state Northridge for my three final years and had the same coach as the men’s team, who was actually quite good. We swam with the men and did a lot of the same workouts. We had one team mate that developed anorexia, but everyone else seemed to have no mental health issues, (at least to my uneducated self). Current college kids have grown up with a lot of parent involvement and have to deal with separation from them in addition to college, which can contribute to anxiety . My grandkids are headed to college in the next three years and the parents are really trying hard to help them develop independence and self worth, so we will see how this goes
Yeah, I think there's something to the parental involvement and expectations -- instead of just letting kids do whatever, there are some studies linking free play (like the running around making up games) to developing self-regulation skills, etc. I think there's also something to all of that being wrapped up in messaging around you always being a brand/social media/how you present yourself. I feel like I was very on the early start of all that coming up through high school and am glad I missed it!