re: Question on 3 & 4 year old t-ball practices

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Two hours of practice per week is not a lot.

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He needs to practice 2 hours a day to have a shot at league MVP

You'd be surprised. Again, it's not like a regular game where all the parents and coaches sit in the stands and the dugout. You have coaches out there basically telling them what to do from hitting the ball to dropping the bat and running to 1st to staying on 1st to getting the ball and throwing it to 1st, etc.

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This year at 11 he says baseball is boring and he doesn't want to play anymore.

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Same age I lost interest at, after only playing baseball until then. Once I discovered basketball and football, baseball bored me.

I'm just glad I didn't do all the travel teams. I knew tons of kids who did the travel teams growing up and most of them didn't even play baseball in high school.

Probably should call the head coach and suggest cutting that to one day a week.. 45 min to an hour at the most and include 10 min of free playtime in each practice. Use cones to designate where they should stand and have them rotate.. Some will be natural at swinging and throwing, others wont and you dont have enough time teach them all to do both or possibly any.. Concentrate on teaching them to look relatively normal swinging a bat.. And for gods sake, allow only one to have a bat in their hands at a time.

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Mine is about to turn 3 in a month. I can't imagine any sort of organized game with 14 more of him on a baseball field.

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Exactly. My nephew just turned three and can barely toss the ball forward in the air for a few feet, let alone catch the ball. This seems ridiculously early to start.

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My nephew just turned three and can barely toss the ball forward in the air for a few feet, let alone catch the ball.

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The world needs musicians, too.

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let alone catch the ball.

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It is a rare 4 year old that can catch a baseball. They learn to field a ground ball, to throw, to hit, and which base to run to. And only about half of them get that by the end of the season.

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At least he didn't say his kid was playing Lacrosse.

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I'm not sure why people have this notion that lacrosse is an expensive sport. My sons been playing the last 5 years and I've spend a total of $300 on his gear in that time (helmets, shoulder pads, elbow pads, sticks, shoes, gloves, etc.). This includes not only his regular gear, but goalie gear as well. The league fees are about $125/year, and throw in a couple of tournaments a year, it jumps to a whopping $150/year.

So I am spending about $210/year on the sport, which is pretty cheap in my opinion.

That being said, 2 practices/week for t-ball is ridiculous, much less for 4 weeks before the season. My son practiced once or twice for an hour prior to the season. Then the kids would practice for half an hour and play an hour game on the weekends once the season started.

I imagine the time slots to save the fields are all 1hr time slots.

You can always cut a practice short. I wouldn't have any problem with 2 practices a week. Just make sure they have fun.

That being said, 3-4 is way too young.
But, there will likely be that one kid out there that knows what's up and making double and triple plays while the other kids are chasing butterflies.

It's a pretty normal schedule. You can't get much through their heads at that age but you have to do as much as you can (without burning them out) if you want them to grasp anything at all. There's a fine line, but that schedule doesn't cross it.