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S. Young, I love this topic.  As a parent, I always feel helpless when he struggles.  He's 16 now so much more mature and able to cope with a slump.  I do remember a couple of things that helped him:

1) He had a terrific travel coach when he was aged 10-13 who told him something I've heard many times since: Baseball is a game of failure.  If you succeed 1 in 3 times you're doing very well.  His coach also told him that he didn't have to carry the team on his shoulders every game.

2) The only thing I ever said that made him feel better was that he only spent a small percentage of the time in a slump and if he's doing pretty well 85-90% of the time, then he needs to take that feeling of doing well into the next at-bat and not give in to the fear.  But he had to experience a few slumps before he could logically understand that.

I would love to hear other people's perspectives on this too, especially as their son grew older. 

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