Social Work and Little league

As I prepare for another season of little league baseball I feel I need to sharpen my Social Worker skills. My husband is coaching and I now have two boys playing. As my boys move into the higher leagues in baseball I see that the adults need to get a grip!  I see coaches and parents trying to live through their children and traumatizing the children along the way. I find it so difficult to sit in the stands with parents that critique every move and insist on coaching from the stands. If you want to coach, sign up and get in there. If you don't then please sit in the stands with the rest of us and cheer the WHOLE team on. This is about building self esteem in children, not tearing them down. The coaches are giving up their time to help your children improve their baseball skills. Lets show them some respect and shake their hand and say thank you. Nobody is perfect, mistakes will be made, and lets all try to remember this is about the kids not you. Now lets have a great season, and good luck to all the teams.

While reading Undoing the Silence, it dawned on me that I am not alone. I have always been extremely critical of my writing and I am cautious about how I may sound. I compare my writing to others and I feel that my work is never good enough. Louise Dunlap wrote a whole book about this subject and how to over come it, that's how I know I'm not alone. I am fearful of putting my real thoughts down on paper for everyone to see. I want to go deeper with my writing and not cower away from the feeling I am having about writing. This blog for me is my first attempts at free writing and I hope that it will get easier. I really can't pinpoint what has gotten in the way of my natural freedom of writing and why I censor myself. Even while writing this blog I find myself stopping, erasing, changing my words, and rereading to see how it sounds. I don't know what I am so afraid of but I am going to keep trying and hopefully I will get better at this.

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