It’s sad how crazy youth sports have become. Back in the prehistoric period when I played baseball most of the spectators were our moms, we had only two coaches and we didn’t have to worry about our parents getting into fights, getting arrested, shot or ejected from the park!Sadly I’ve heard rumors of parents asking to have Tommy John surgery on their kids so they throw faster.
My Dad was a very good athlete in his day and even earned a swimming scholarship to Yale … but he never forced, either my brother or myself, to play the sports that he’d excelled at. Rather, we were allowed to choose what we wanted to play and what we didn’t. He encouraged our endeavors, cheered our successes and failures with equal enthusiasm, was our biggest fan, but rarely criticized, and never pushed.
He always said: " My kids are not the extension of my own ego. "
Consequently, I raised my kids the same way. Enjoy the game, play hard but have fun!
lee85736 over 5 years ago
You go, Doctor!
derdave969 over 5 years ago
Stock market is a safer investment.
jagedlo over 5 years ago
Sacrificing the kid to further your dream? I can understand why the doctor said what he did!
J Quest over 5 years ago
Almost universal consensus: Children playing one sport year round is a very bad idea,
YatInExile over 5 years ago
Looks like Mom & Dad’s retirement plan just went to hell in a handbasket.
GAKatmandu over 5 years ago
It’s sad how crazy youth sports have become. Back in the prehistoric period when I played baseball most of the spectators were our moms, we had only two coaches and we didn’t have to worry about our parents getting into fights, getting arrested, shot or ejected from the park!Sadly I’ve heard rumors of parents asking to have Tommy John surgery on their kids so they throw faster.
ED CANTWELL over 5 years ago
There is something to the idea that youth sports is organized child abuse.
Godfreydaniel over 5 years ago
I never heard of any kid needing Tommy John surgery from playing Calvinball……..
Linguist over 5 years ago
My Dad was a very good athlete in his day and even earned a swimming scholarship to Yale … but he never forced, either my brother or myself, to play the sports that he’d excelled at. Rather, we were allowed to choose what we wanted to play and what we didn’t. He encouraged our endeavors, cheered our successes and failures with equal enthusiasm, was our biggest fan, but rarely criticized, and never pushed.
He always said: " My kids are not the extension of my own ego. "
Consequently, I raised my kids the same way. Enjoy the game, play hard but have fun!
hwmj over 5 years ago
Regrettably, sports have de-evolved from kids have fun to a business proposition.
AndrewSihler over 5 years ago
Good one!
Jethro Flatline over 5 years ago
Amen!