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COACH'S CLIPBOARD: How-to Teach Young Children to Hit a Baseball--Bat Control

Welcome Mommies, Daddies and Mommy Bloggers!

My husband Brad and I would like to welcome you to our Making Kids "Coachable" blog! We are glad you're here. Brad and I are very excited to share with you our gift, something we are told by the many new families we meet weekly is long overdue, sorely needed and greatly appreciated.

I am anxious to tell you what we do, but first I want to tell you where it all got started. We, like many other families, value but often struggle to find family time. We found through discussions with friends and family that sports is an excellent medium for bringing families closer together. The problem we found with sports was it didn't always translate very well from adult-thinking to child-thinking and vice-versa. This is especially true when working with younger children like our daughter, Ari.

Knowing there had to be a better way, Brad and I did some research. We looked in parenting magazines, Barnes & Noble, talked to doctors and child development specialists, and nobody could tell us exactly how to teach our young children sports. There were no sports parenting resources dedicated to teaching young children. The people we talked to and the resources that did exist taught sports how it had traditionally been taught for generations, never really getting deep enough to tell us, as parents, exactly how to effectively teach young children sports.

Brad and I decided we were going to change this. Our Masters Degrees in training and development came in handy helping us create several early learner sports development programs that teach different types of sports in simple and fun step-by-step formats. We've broken sports down further than it has ever been done before and created a language around it that kids can respond to, remember and enjoy beyond the experience. This blog represents our small contribution to the world and allows us to share our love and respect for family, young children and sports with you.

Mommies and Daddies (and everyone else!), welcome again. Explore and don't be afraid to try some of our techniques tonight! Oh and by the way, share them with your friends, too. They will thank you because instead of just saying, "there needs to be a better way to teach sports to young children," when they are stuck in the middle of trying; they will have a beautiful new resource to use because of you!

Have fun and God bless,

Kristina Kayden

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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

COACH'S CLIPBOARD: How-to Teach Young Children to Hit a Baseball--Bat Control

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