Kid Gloves

How Baseball Helps Children Overcome 21st Century Problems

von Christopher Dale

240 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

New problems, meet old game. This book explores how America's most time-tested sport can inform and counteract today's unique childrearing challenges. Modern kids face obstacles blissfully absent from their parents' childhoods. Soaring gun violence and record drug deaths. Academic hyper-competitiveness, exorbitant college costs and a yawning generational wealth gap. Social media's addictive algorithms and dialogue-coarsening extremism. And then there's us parents. The unintended side effects of today's kinder, gentler approaches to childrearing can impinge upon mission-critical qualities like grit, independence, and the ability to form true friendships rather than accrue fair-weather acquaintances. Our national pastime hits home as a reliable, relevant salve to confront such challenges. Baseball has more than a few tools in its toolbox--and its batter's box--serving as counternarratives to some of today's least tenable trends.This book addresses how all facets of baseball--from Little League participation to Major Leagues fandom, and from running out a grounder to geeking out on statistics--can help children build buffers against modern-day America's pitfalls. Today's parents would be well-advised to get their kids away from their smartphones, off their rear ends and onto a ballfield. In 21st century America, the baseball diamond is a parenting gold mine.

• Themen: Sport & Freizeit Ballsportarten / Ballspiele Baseball
• ISBN: 9781476658315
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 24.04.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc.