God I must be bored,

So I found the league http://www2.walnutponybaseball.net/pages/agedivisions

they have a 3-4 yr old group
FOAL

• This division is comprised of players who are 3 and 4 years of age.

• An early introduction to baseball aimed at promoting teamwork and developing an interest in baseball.

• A softer baseball is used to help protect players from injury.

• A Pitching Machine is used.

• No outs or scores are kept.

• No tryouts are held.

• Games take place once a week at Creekside Park.

So no outs or score kept, so many bat an inning???

Oh good god why don't I stop, so I found the league FB page, and a link to an article by the local paper. Makes it sound like they somehow take turns running to home. The article says when it became his turn to run home the coach said ...

Seems odd to me.

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Just Triing
Triathlete since 9:56:39 AM EST Aug 20, 2006.
Be kind English is my 2nd language. My primary language is Dave it's a unique evolution of English.

How do we know that it was a complete and utter fail by all adults there? Its just a snapshot. We have no idea what happened after, whether there was any lesson taught, etc. What would you have preferred? The coach came out to usher him home. Should he have done more at that particular moment? Should he have torn him a new one right then and there?

Any psychologists here on ST? To the ST experts, the ones who get paid to give opinions, does this 3 yr old need a little direction? Is he headed for juvie hall otherwise?

For context, I have a 5 year old and a seven year old so I've been to a fair few sports days with very young kids over the last few years. At the age of 3 you see it all - kids who are ultra competitive, kids who will cheat (holding the egg in an egg and spoon race), kids who don't have a competitive bone in their body and are just larking about, kids who are showing off, kids who don't seem to have any grasp of what's going on and just have to be shepherded through it (and not cause they're dumb - a friend's son who is now 7 is super clever, was reading and doing math aged 3 but just didn't "get" sport at that age at all). I really wouldn't read any more into either the kid or the parenting than that he's 3 years old and doing what 3 year olds do!

Interesting and very odd. I appreciate your boredom because I learned something from it!

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The first rule of coaching kids is to coach to their level of cognitive and emotional development. E.g., That's why you don't spend time on passing with kids of this age playing soccer, it's just not something most are ready for. Now you can force a kid to do just about anything but that doesn't mean it's a wise use of time or what's best for the kids development in the sport.

Honestly, 3 year olds playing baseball seems absurd. I thought the kid was at least 4 or 5 and even that was absurd when my kid started out.

About the only thing I could 'fault' the kid on was when he basically pushed the coach away when they tried to usher them along.

But honestly, it's refreshing to hear parents laughing on the sidelines rather than abusing. Too many parents are all about how great their kids are at sport, school, insert anything else. Stop making everything a competition and just let kids at that age have fun and clown around.