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As a baseball parent it sometimes becomes blurry to find a balance. There is a happy median between providing healthy encouragement and applying too much pressure to succeed. |
| "For parents of a little leaguer or youth baseball player, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into innings." Earl Wilson. |
While umpiring a youth league game this year I heard a dad threatening his own 10 year old son who was coming up to bat. The dad told the boy very sternly,
You better get a hit boy. You owe us three runs from all those bad plays you made. Chills went through my body. How could a father be that mean to his own child?
As a youth league parent, we all experience anxiety and emotions when our child comes to bat, pitches, or has to make a play in the field.
By nature we want to protect our children, make sure nothing bad happens and control the environment.
Sports itself by nature is uncontrollable.
Fred Engh, author of Why Johnny Hates Sports says,
It is ironic that the childish behavior at most athletic events is not on the field.
It’s in the stands. That is where the normal, everyday moms and dads reside.
Now most moms and dads don’t intentionally set out to be malicious and overbearing.
It is just the hoopla surrounding youth sports can be intoxicating. Once the game begins, these mature, sensible, clear-thinking adults are transformed into out-of-control fanatic folks.
Suddenly parents become loud, negative, degrading, and disruptive.
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