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I wish I'd been a better softball parent.
47.9% of all statistics are made up!
I'm not buying this car ride home stuff.
Whenever you do anything as a family, go to the movies, go to a Baseball game, parent teacher conference etc., you talk about what you did on the way home. I'm not a fan of nitpicking my kids performance on the way home, I might have been that way when my oldest was little 10/12u player. But then I blinked my eyes and she was driving herself to her games. So I dont critique my middles DD performance on the way home, but we do talk about the game or games.
I really think this is for the kids that play a sport because their friends are playing it, the kids that really arent into it and use it as a social tool.
If I were to just use travel ball players as an example, lets take an avg 14u player. That girl is probably dragging her dad or mom to the local high school game, taking hitting or pitching lessons or maybe both, playing on a local high school feeder team and playing travel. She's also watching every fastpitch game on ESPN, probably has either read or is reading books about Jenny Finch or Cat osterman or Natashia whatley etc. These kids are into it, they arent some fragile little tulip, they like softball, they like talking softball, they like playing softball and on the car ride home they like to talk the game with mom, Dad, grandpa or grandma.
What they dont like is their parents or grandparents yelling and screaming at them about an error or strikeout, or 0-2 pitch on the car ride home, like the kid made some kind of personal attack on mom or dad lol. I am fairly certain 99.9% of coaches and parents here on OFC are well aware of that and didnt need a study to tell them that lol.
Next time my wife wants to talk about something I screwed up...I am going to tell her I need some time to decompress!