[Les Paul]

Sign them up. There are many many things you can do to improve their game. First off buy a bucket of balls and go to the local diamond and pitch to them. I spent many many hours pitching to my son. Not being afraid of the ball will really help them. They are going to get hit no doubt about it but they need to know when to bail. In fact the best coach my son ever had pitched tennis balls at them on purpose so they learned which way to bail.

Don't quit using the t-ball stand. When they get in a funk hitting pitched balls you can analyze if they are jerking their head, not stepping into it, dropping their back elbow, whatever, by using the t. They start whacking it off the t consistantly and you go back to pitching to them. Proper throwing technique same thing, step into the thows elbow high, overhand not sidearm etc. My son was a natural probably because he practice more than 99% of the kids. I never coached one of his teams because there were so many guys more eat up with it than I was, but every time he said," lets go play catch", or "come pitch to me", I did and loved it. When he quit midway through his freshman year in hs it was more a bummer for me than him. I never tried to live frustrated parent dreams through him like so many parents do. That is the sad part of little league. You'll see that the longer he stays in it too.

Bottom line I've seen kids that weren't that great in little league become stars because they stuck with it.