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It's estimated that less than 1% of little league ball players make it to the major leagues,

which means of most of the kids you see out there in the fields practicing in the springtime and during the summer

They're not going to make it in the pros, but even if professional sports aren't part of your child's future

Athletics can be a great training ground.

Kids gain confidence, they learn to excel and work with others, so many benefits to athletics.

I'm John Fuller joined by Danny Wer, who heads up our parenting and youth department

here at Focus on the Family.

And let's go ahead and listen to a part of a conversation that Jim Daly and I had with Dr. David Clark. He's an author, a speaker, a licensed psychologist,

and we talked about two core needs that all kids have, the need for respect and the need to develop competence.

Dave, a lot of the experts now are talking about

that parents ability to not give the lecture.

And I'm telling you from personal experience, it is hard not to do that. I mean, I think

Gene and I tag team lectures. You go at it for a minute and then I'll pick it up from there.

It just feels so good. I mean, you are just you're just espousing this incredible wisdom.

You're not, you have not been 17 as a 15 year old.

I was 17.

I know where you're headed.

Bob Bob Bob Bob Bob.

It's kind of like that Charlie Brown, you know,, blah blah blah blah blah it's like that Charlie Brown

you know it is blah blah walk that's right how do we pull back from that knowing it is not

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