Not Little Adults

Organized youth sports are treating children as little adults. It seems so normal and wonderful that young boys are on a baseball field in uniforms playing baseball just like the major leagues. I believe it is dysfunctional and even harmful to the kids. The dirty little secret is that the kids aren't having fun, they do it because their parents want them to. It's about the parents raising their self esteem. They also are admitting that they think they are inferior because they think their child has to start very early in organized sports if they want to make it later on. It's about the parents lifting their self worth in the present while trying to set up the future for their self worth.
Young kids supposedly playing baseball on a field with screaming parents in the stands is all dysfunctional and harmful to the kids. Let them play pick up games where they really have fun and learn to compete and learn about themselves where they aren't afraid to fail, they don't even think about it.