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Practicing With Your Kids

The information contained in this site for our coaches is every bit as applicable to you as a parent in working with your own kids at home. Click here to see our instructional videos and other coaching tips.

Plain and simple, it shows on the field which kids practice at home and which do not. Unfortunately, there is only so much practice time each team can schedule and even less is carried out due to weather. In a two hour practice, the coaches have to find a way to work with up to 12 kids or so and the personal one-on-one time is limited. Parents can make a huge impact on their kids' growth in the sport by playing catch, working on fielding or pitching, or taking their child to the batting cages in between scheduled practice times.

Ideally, what you teach and help your child with is consistent with good fundamentals and in-line with what your coach wants to teach, but even if it isn't, doing something is better than doing nothing at all.

At the very least, parents can help give their kids more repetitions on the things they learn and do at practice. Play catch with your kid and work on grounders and pop-ups.