How To Coach Squirrelly Kids (and Screaming Parents)
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
When Kelly volunteered to be the head coach for his son's baseball team, he was nervous. He had no formal training, but he knew he wanted his players to have equal playing time and, more importantly, have fun. Which they did….until the yelling started and the season ended in a surprising loss (and quite a few tears). What can Kelly do better next season? On this episode of How To!, we bring on Doug Lemov, author of the books, Teach Like a Champion and The Coach's Guide to Teaching. Doug has some fantastic advice for commanding attention, and managing failure, that we can all learn from—on or off the field.
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| 0:30.8 | I absolutely do not want to be the red-faced, angry dad, in the Under Armour hat with the oakley shades and the crummy goatee |
| 0:42.2 | with his arms crossed in the dugout, you know, shouting. That's the kind of coach I don't want to be. |
| 0:50.7 | Welcome to how to. I'm Amanda Ripley. As a reporter, I've been in a lot of uncomfortable places. |
| 0:58.0 | I've been in prisons, crack houses, hurricanes, but I never got as nervous as I did on the sidelines of a soccer field, |
| 1:06.0 | coaching a bunch of 10-year-old boys. I mean, I've played soccer my whole life, and I was always solidly mediocre, but through |
| 1:13.7 | a series of events, I ended up coaching my son's soccer team for about five years. |
| 1:19.4 | And I mean, I hate to admit this, but I can still remember my stomach tensing up during |
| 1:24.4 | those games, the feeling of absolute elation when my players scored, and profound |
| 1:30.7 | despair when they lost, all of which I hid from them, of course, most of the time. |
| 1:37.6 | Anyway, it was just way harder than I expected, so I have a lot of sympathy for this week's listener. |
| 1:45.1 | My name is Kelly. I'm 46. I live in just outside of Seattle, Washington. Kelly is the father of two boys, aged 11 and 8. His younger son, Benjamin, is the athlete of the family. |
| 1:57.6 | So got him into T-ball a couple years ago and saw a real lack of participation from |
| 2:02.4 | the other parents. So I, after a lot of consternation and hand-wringing, volunteered to be the |
| 2:07.6 | head coach for his boys' farmball team. Kelly didn't really play a lot of sports growing up, |
| 2:14.0 | but he's still kind of a romantic when it comes to baseball. He even asked his team to call him Skipper. |
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