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Tom Bradyis reflecting on a special parenting moment that resonated deeper than he expected.
Discussing the “emotional components” of deciding whether to come back to football each season on hisLet’s Gopodcast, Brady told co-host Jim Gray and guests Roger Staubach and Steve Young about taking son Benjamin Rein, 13, to summer camp.
“I drop my son off at camp — he’s 13 this year, at summer camp. It was just all boys, and they were all — there’s no electronics, and they just got to go be kids,” said Brady. “They swam, and they drew, and they played games.”
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback, 45, then related the experience of camp to his feelings about being in the NFL.
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Connecting it back to decisions about his career or any other players, Brady said, “It’s nice to connect to that feeling when we all didn’t have as much responsibility.”
“The weight of life and the weight of the responsibilities of your life become more than — to value it, it’s your cost-benefit analysis, so to speak. What am I giving up now, to continue to play, as opposed to what am I gaining?” he continued.
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“There’s an emotional component to those decisions which do weigh differently on you as you get older because you just have more responsibility in your life.”
“And that responsibility is amazing. Children are —there’s nothing to me more important than my kids.”
In addition to Ben, the quarterback, 45, shares daughter Vivian Lake, 10, with exGisele Bündchen. He is also dad to son John “Jack” Edward, 15, with exBridget Moynahan.
source: people.com
