You can’t save them from failure as an outcome. But you can protect them from failure as a *mindset* by providing context. https://twitter.com/ReformedSParent/status/1319830630104993794

We’re not talking about kids playing for a scholarship or a contract. We’re talking about KIDS.

If youth baseball is constructed in a way that kids can “fail” while not being told they are a failure by adults, we will keep more kids playing the game.

You can be prepared, have an approach, be mentally & physically ready for the game & still fail.

Some of that’s baseball, some of that is the fact that they’re kids. You can prep them, you can drill them, you can ride them...they’re still just kids.

Shark gonna be a shark.

At the end of the day as an adult - parent or coach - if the amount of time you spend on PFP’s & bunt defense vastly exceeds the amount of time you spend building up your athletes confidence & helping them learn how to grow through failure you are fucking it up for the rest of us