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Author Speaker Says Let S Use Common Sense When Managing Youth Sports
As the Manager of Little League?s Wildcats, a title I once bore with distinction, or depending on your vantage point, perhaps just ?stink-shun,? I had my second in command help my child while I helped his.
It worked out very well, and I avoided the extremes of playing favorites or ignoring a close family member.
Today?s parents tend to over-think kid-sports, complicating nearly every aspect of them. Most good parenting, and by extension, good coaching springs from common sense.
I think we would be well-advised to simply hark back to the days when we played. The parents who ran the leagues, as I recall, were nice folks who knew a reasonable amount about the sports they coached, but they weren?t professionals, by any means.
Yes, there was the occasional ?ringer,? a childless, just-beyond-college coach who did play big-time ball somewhere, who would run workouts like boot camp. The kids liked him, anyway, or possibly because of his style.
Most of the "civilians" who managed teams in my childhood never exceeded their authority or violated the trust parents automatically invested them with. And parents wouldn?t think of storming the field in the middle of a tense game to threaten a coach, as one nut did to me, when I was leading those Mild-Cats.
(I gave the ?take? sign to his child with a 3-0 count, bases loaded, and our team was down by a run. After his intrusion, the player swung away, struck out, and we missed the post-season by a single game.)
Youth leagues provide an opportunity for kids to play together under structured, circumstances. The exercise is great, and if they learn a thing or two about their sports and about friendly competition, that?s to the good, as well.
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