How do you teach a child to catch a baseball in a baseball glove?

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You can't rush motor skill development The brief answer: you can't. Catching a ball requires several skills to work together. First is eye-to-hand coordination.

The second is arm motor skills. The third, if he has to run to the ball - is using the brain to estimate where the ball will land and how to move the legs to get there. The combination is tricky.

Kids develop different skills at different ages. Some develop 2 of the skills abut not the third. Some none.

The occasional kid develops all three early and is considered 'coordinated'. You didn't tell us how old the kid is - but if he is less than 8 or 9, then you are expecting too much. If he is over 8 or 9, then keep in mind that everyone grows at his own rate.

And there's not much you can do about it. If the already have the skill, you can help shapre it and improve it, but you can't create a skill that isn't mature yet. One other thing: don't push it.

If you do, the kid feels like he is disappointing you, and that causes him to resent the pressure, and by extension, you. Let these skills evolve.

The first thing to do is try to get them to catch a lob ball with their hands first. This is instinctive. So start with either a soft ball like a tennis ball, wiffle ball, or someother RIF(Reduced Injury Factor) ball.

Stand a little bit away, ask them to cup their hands in front of them, then toss the ball underhand to them aiming for their hands. After you have done this a handful of times and they have completed the task, Move on to a large milk jug, cut open a large opening opposite the handle. Have them hold the jug and toss towards the milk jug.

After they can accomplish this task, it is time to move on to a glove. The glove needs to be big enough to catch the ball, but not too big for to kid to handle. It needs to be sized to your child, if your playing T-ball something small in the T-ball section will be suitable.

If you are talking about a older child greater then 5 years of age something around a 8 or 9 inch glove. Look for glove that is easy to squeeze together like a power close glove if available. Again start, by tossing the ball to the child and encourage them to put the other hand on top of the glove as the ball hits it.

Eventually you can start throwing the ball over hand softly to your child. Remember these strategies, if the ball is below the waist pinkies together if the ball is above the waist thumbs together. You can put your hands together with the palms together and tell them it's an alligator mouth and that they should close the mouth as the ball approaches.

You do this as your rolling the ball to them, that way they get the proper techniques down clamping down on the ball and the glove. Always use two hands when catching the ball, or doing anything in baseball. Many people believe you can do things with only one hand and that's a false hood even the pros drop balls when they don't use both hands.

Once they get a bad habit it's really hard to break that habit. Always remember don't get frustrated and always try to give a sandwich compliment for everything they do. Something like, you almost got it and you did a good job of closing your hands on the ball, as opposed to well you dropped the ball again.

There are many websites to look at but I believe that the Little League website has the best information. Here is one website: baseball-excellence.com/sbaseballforums/... http://www.partroywestbaseball.org/parents_Tball_Farm_practices.htm .

Like you would teach anything to a child: slowly, incrementally, and with much praise for efforts and success. The child ultimately does want to do thins with dad or mom. The continued effort on the parents' part to teach this thing will bring the child to want to do this thing .. .

Once the child is sure that the parent really wants this thing done and won't abandon it in favor of the next distraction..

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