Reply to "Thoughts on Parenting"

justbaseball10,000+ posts

UKMB - Your story about your son reminded me of one about mine.

He had this all star coach for a few years (age 8/9/10 or so). I didn't really like him...thought he was too overbearing and besides, he didn't play my son a whole lot. Finally one day my son looked at me at about age 11 and said (more or less), "Dad, I don't know what your problem is with Coach X, I've played for him and I like him a lot." Stopped me dead in my tracks. He was right, I was wrong.

That coach is the father of one of his now-college teammates and a great friend of our family...we've even coached together for the past 2 years with my younger one. He's a great guy and a great coach. I'll never forget the lesson my son taught me back then...it was about HIM, not ME!

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