Organizations, coaches, parents - let's shift our focus.

Sports is a vehicle to teach life lessons and values that will help round a child into a good person as they grow up.

It is no different than school or church or extracurricular programs like Scouts.

But sports now also carries the pressure of keeping up with the Jones', racing your "development", doing more and more and more until sports is no longer fun and we lose that branch of teaching for our child.

The sooner our primary focus is on creating good people who know how to work as a team, know how to win and lose gracefully, know how to lead, know how to thrive under pressure, know how to set a goal and work to attain it - the better experience our kids will have.

The NHL, NBA, NFL etc is a win-loss business.

Your child's U11 baseball team is not.

Take a look at www.mattdumouchelle.com for information on how we can work together to create the best youth sports experience for every child in your program or your home.