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After a good bp session with my dd hitting coach he asked the girls when was the last time you just got a bucket of balls and through them up in the air and hit into a side of a barn or a net or even into a field and run out and pick them up and do it again and again,and then he asked when was the last time you called your buddies up and started a little pickup game of softball ????The girls looked at him like he just took there Jonas bros. I tune off there i-pod and..Needless to say none of them had ever done these great things that most of us here have done and still to this day have great memories of doing them..I know these are just a few little things that most of us here have done but i sit back and think,we as travel ball parents do we expect so much out of our children that we take them to hitting instructors,pitching instructors,base running camps,mental preparation seminars and so on because we want them to the best that they can be or the best that we can make them.Now i know that the world we live in now is more competitive than it has ever been and our dd's in our way of thinking has to have an edge or a some kind of an advantage to stay on top but when we look at our children after all these workouts and camps, personalized training sessions and ask them(did you have FUN today) and of course most of them say yea it was great dad,It makes me wonder how much fun would they be having if they could experience the things we as parents enjoyed when we was there age?
i know this was rather lengthy and probably not well wrote but the times we live in and all the the expectations we have for our children and all the extra things we do to give them that little edge,,Sometimes I FIND MYSELF forgetting to tell them HAVE FUN..
i know this was rather lengthy and probably not well wrote but the times we live in and all the the expectations we have for our children and all the extra things we do to give them that little edge,,Sometimes I FIND MYSELF forgetting to tell them HAVE FUN..