exclude those parents from any direct involvement in games and practices. kids have fun. kids learn to compete. winning comes with teamwork, repetition, focus, improved skills, confidence and luck.

Exclusion is a bad idea, anybody remember pre-Jackie Robinson? Is anybody proud now that black players were excluded? Coaching is a balancing act. Sure you are going to have to deal with some jerks, there is one in every croud. Make it fun for the kids so that they will want to stay with it and benefit from everything that baseball has to offer. As for the jerks, take the high road, Coach the parents as to their mistakes, as a Coach lead by example. Also remember you can't please everyone all the time, and you are going to make mistakes, stay focused on your objectives and to your best.

I have run into this so often these days. You are right Kids first Parents second! Not all teams are going to be the best ones out there, so we need to focus on teaching more fundamentals, teamwork, and having more fun. My son;a 12 year old, is being coached by another so called coach in LL. I coach in Minor. In a 6 inning game Tuesday night we needed 3 outs for a 6 to 1 win. Well to say it was a good game is understated; they came back and tied it 6 to 6 before we fianlly got the last out, by that time it was 10:15 so we had to quit and finish it later. What made this the worst game of my son's lfe was that after an error; by the coaches son, Coach calls timeout, during this timeout he starts yelling and blaming evey other player but who caused the error. Those kids didn't know what to do; they were not treated with any respect and confidence whatsoever. My point is coaches parnets etc. don't understand one thing IT IS A GAME!!!!!! They are only ( to 12 year old Kid's not under contract. We need more coaches to be like you and I; treat them like they are your kids.

Thank you all for these helpful hints. So far things are going well, so we'll just try to keep on track. I remind the coaches each and every time we play that the kids are the most important thing, and I promised 'em that we'll teach 'em baseball, win or lose.

i think the kids should just go out and have fun playing and not worry all about winning and losing. if you have to keep the parents and people not involved with the team away from the dugout and talk to them about just having fun and not worry about winning or losing