[Jims5543]

Make sure he has fun. Everything else will come with time.

Being from a competative Ballplaying background, it ruined me for a few years growing up. One of the kids on my Midget team was the son of a Mets pitching coach. He was on my team for 2 years. I did not know what it was to loose. If we ever fell behind he was put on the mound and would kill the other team. I did not know who his dad was until we won the championship 2 years in a row. His pitching was amazing.


But, after that I would flip out if my team lost. It really screwed me up. Make sure you teach you're boy that its all for fun. (unless you are planning on this being his carrer when he grows up.) Its o.k. to loose and its all about having fun.

I have purposfully kept my kid away from team sports for this reason. We fish, Golf, Bike and work out together instead.

I have gotten him into a Racing Kart and he runs in the SCCA at Autocrosses but there is hardly ever another kid there so he is just out for the fun of driving the Kart. Even when another shows up and beats him, he is more impressed at how fast the other kid is rather than mad he lost.


Make sure he has fun.