You are listening to the Life Coach School podcast with Brook Castillo.

Episode 270.

Welcome to the Life Coach School podcast, where it's all about real clients, real problems, and real coaching.

And now your host, Master Coaching Structure, Brook Castillo.

Alright, my friends. It's a pretty exciting podcast day today.

I'm sitting here with my son who is bigger than me, Christian, Christian Castillo, and he is going to answer a bunch of questions that I have for him today about being a teenager, about being raised by me, about being a kid.

And I asked him to give us all the dirt on what your kids are doing in high school and middle school, what it's like to be a kid, and what it's like for those kids to have you all as parents.

So let's start.

First you want to say hi?

Yeah, I'm Christian.

Alright, so let's start with what was the hardest part of being a kid? Let's start with the four middle school to middle school time.

Before middle school, it was hard just kind of like making friends. And for us, we moved around a lot.

So we were always having to do it to adapt to a new school, like make new friends.

It was that was hard to do, but after a certain point, you just kind of adapt to it and just start doing it more and more, and then you just become more social.

So that was the hardest part before middle school. Middle school itself is pretty hard.

It's awful. You told me it's awful.

Yeah, it is. There's not a lot of good that comes out of it. It's a lot of drama. There's a lot of, you know, fight to be popular. There's not a lot that you can do well in the eyes of your friends.

Why is that? Why is no school such a nightmare?

Just is. That's when everyone's like, everyone's going through puberty, everything's like everything's happening that you haven't dealt with.

And you're finally, I think that's the first step of getting away from your parents, like in elementary school, they're always over your shoulder and middle school is like the first step to where they don't really look at everything you do per se.

But that's hard about middle school. And then the transition to high school is just night and day. It's when you get your license.

Everything just seems to change for the better, I think. That's when you just start being your own person and learning. And that's when everyone else does it too. So you.

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