I think these lessons can be applied to football, basketball and soccer too. I wish I learned them sooner. My favorite line: "Most of all, though, baseball draws parents to emotional excess because it lets you do what normal parenting doesn’t: cheer out loud for your child when they are under pressure and something’s on the line. The great lesson of baseball is that even the great players strike out. The key to the game, as in life, is to endure failure, adapt, and through grit hit more than you miss. It is a joy to be able to participate in this concentrated sneak instillation of the lessons of life, because most of the time you won’t be there. You can’t show up at the SAT to root for your child. After they strike out with a girl or a boy you can’t appear and show them in front of everyone that you support them no matter what happens."
Posted on: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 20:21:57 +0000