Little League World Series

[homedog]

Liberalism at its finest.

 

[Old School]

Old School this post struck a chord with me so I decided to respond in a separate post from my other.

I really believe it is a coaches and teachers responsibility to teach every thing they can including responsibility and accountability. I'm not saying the parents aren't the most important but everyone in a kids life has that responsibility. I think the saying is "it takes a community to raise a child."

I know for a good number of boys on my teams that I'm one of the few adult males in their life. Like I said in my other post, I'm hard on my boys and expect big things from them. At first some of them push me away, act out or just don't want to play on our team. Now when I pull up for practice or games my kids run up and give me hugs and have the biggest smiles on their faces. It's a roll that I take to heart and it means a lot to me. If I don't require them to be respectful and everything else then I really can't say much.

So while I agree it begins and ends at home I don't agree that it's nowhere else.

I admire your efforts.


keep up the good fight..

 

[BuckwheatJWN]

Liberalism at its finest.

Does that mean this will get moved to the Politics and Religion page? :shrug:

 

[layinwood]

Layin: Just an opinion, but back when I coached kids almost 40 years ago , an older friend who was a successful high school coach said to never make RUNNING the punishment for anything to young kids.
1. They all can run and sometimes don't necessarily look at it as punishment. It gets them away from something they CAN'T do like catch or hit a baseball.

2. Running should ALWAYS be fun. It's one of the best exercises and simplest one can do by themselves their whole lives. You're making something which is GOOD for a person seem BAD.

Just a suggestion which made sense to me then and still does. Good luck and thanks for the effort.

Buckwheat, I do agree with you some what about the running but you have to understand these are 7 and getting ready to be 8 this year old kids. They haven't EVER had to run and when they do I'm getting their attention and that's all I'm trying to do. At this point in their life they've hardly ever had to focus and for a lot of them they either don't want to or can't. Once they have to "focus" on running because there is no choice then 90% of the time they come back and are locked in on what we are doing. I only get a small amount of time with them each week so if someone is disturbing 5 minutes of it then it's a very high %.

Not saying I know everything and I'm always willing to take others expertise so I do appreciate it.

 

[layinwood]

I admire your efforts.


keep up the good fight..

LOl, thanks. I do look forward to my time with the kids. Maybe once they get older it won't be fun but for now it's a great time and the MOST important part of it is that I'm spending time with my son. That's something nobody can take from me.

 

[BuckwheatJWN]

After the guy told me this, I realized that some of the kids (8-10 year olds) who were afraid of the ball or not athletic couldn't wait to run when I used that method of punishment. They all could run, some just couldn't catch, throw, or hit.

I think the main point is to find a punishment that in fact is a punishment to the individual. They will learn to hate running on their own soon enough LOL, much like today's youths get burned out from playing spring, summer, fall ball or specializing in one sport.

I coached at a very young age 17-24, quit because I loved to play in adult leagues too much, so things have changed (mostly parents). Thought at the time I'd get back into it later in life, but no way could I handle the attitudes today (mostly parents, again) . My comments to anyone who coaches are seldom criticism, just suggestions. :0008

 

[Old School]

good thread..nice folks..


:0074

 

[Jinxbreaker]

GO RHODY!!!! Every time they get to Williamsport they do some damage. We should have done a little league pool