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[quote=Anonymous]Hoop Ed does beginner baller classes for young kids that are truly beginner level.

Here’s a question though: you say “we’re working on.”   What if any of this stuff is FUN for your kid?

We signed my kid up for baseball because everybody in the neighborhood played baseball.  He was terrible at it and hated it.  We reconciled ourselves to our kid being very unathletic. We signed him up for soccer, and we were shocked to learn that our 6 year old didn’t actually hate sports as we had thought.  He was bad but not terrible, and he had fun.  We signed him up for basketball as a second grader, and he was terrible at it, but liked it. By middle school, he was at the park every day and when we’d tell him to come home after many hours because it was dark/raining/snowing, he’d repeatedly beg for 10 more minutes.  By high school he was playing on his school team and a highly competitive AAU team.

I’d advise you to find a sport/environment/team that your kid enjoys. Also, teach Kim the rules and skills.  Some parents seem to expect kids to just magically know how to play, and of course they don’t.  They need to learn, and it takes a long time.  NBA players sometimes make mistakes that 4th graders are taught not to make (e.g. inbounding the ball right under the basket).[/quote]

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