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Thank you
On behalf of your child, who should say it more, Thank you.
Thank you for signing them up to play the greatest game in the world.
Thank you for being a taxi, for the endless laundry, for working the snack shack.
As the season goes along, it's important to take a moment to pause and reflect.
Here are three questions to consider:
Why is your child playing baseball?
What do you want them to get out of it? Do you want them to have fun? Become a good baseball player? Learn the value of hard work?
When you check in with them on how they are doing, how are you going to finish the question “Hey kiddo, did you…”?
What are your goals and expectations?
If we, as parents, aren’t introspective and aware of our motivations, we can confuse our children.
None of use intend to communicate that “we only love you if you win”.
No one rationally thinks that - though they may act such that it is what the player hears.
What do you - personally, selfishly - hope to get out of the season?
There are easy answers but I encourage you to go deeper. There may be unconscious things to uncover.
How you you want your player to feel?
Both on the daily and at seasons end, what emotions do you want them to have?
Emotions lock in memories. Nostalgia is emotional.
How do you want them to feel when they look back?
On behalf of your child, who should say it more, Thank you.
Thank you for signing them up to play the greatest game in the world.
Thank you for being a taxi, for the endless laundry, for working the snack shack.
As the season goes along, it's important to take a moment to pause and reflect.
Here are three questions to consider:
Why is your child playing baseball?
What do you want them to get out of it? Do you want them to have fun? Become a good baseball player? Learn the value of hard work?
When you check in with them on how they are doing, how are you going to finish the question “Hey kiddo, did you…”?
What are your goals and expectations?
If we, as parents, aren’t introspective and aware of our motivations, we can confuse our children.
None of use intend to communicate that “we only love you if you win”.
No one rationally thinks that - though they may act such that it is what the player hears.
What do you - personally, selfishly - hope to get out of the season?
There are easy answers but I encourage you to go deeper. There may be unconscious things to uncover.
How you you want your player to feel?
Both on the daily and at seasons end, what emotions do you want them to have?
Emotions lock in memories. Nostalgia is emotional.
How do you want them to feel when they look back?