This is the Jocko Underground Podcast number 1.30 sitting here with Echo Charles.

We're going to roll into some questions.

Echo Charles, what do you got?

I have a six year old son.

His mother and I are divorced him and have been for some time now. We have both moved on have very involved partners who also have children but I've noticed some issues that have been consistent since he was very young.

He lacks a lot of self-confidence, especially

when he's around his mother. He completely shuts down when interacting with new people or people

he doesn't interact with regularly. Initially, I thought this was due to speech

issues he has but when he's around my stepchildren he's very outgoing and

confident like he's a completely different child. To help his confidence I

signed up for wrestling at his local school.

He would act excited around me prior to wrestling starting, but his mother reported he was having

severe anxiety and fear about starting wrestling, and he told her he didn't want to

participate. The first wrestling practice he attended he wouldn't even watch the

practice he continued to cry facing the wall. I changed some when his mother left. He livened up and began to watch

the practice at least. He was asking me questions and seemed genuinely interested, but he wouldn't

take that next step and actually

participate his mother took him to the next practice and he did watch with her but he

but she told me that she would not be taking him anymore due to her believing she is the obstruction.

Unfortunately, I'm a police officer who works second shift so I rely on her to take him to

practice once or two days a week. I organize his step-mom and his grandmother to take him on the days that I work

and when I informed his mother of this she refused saying that she would take

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