Great post. Having coached PAL, practice is for teaching the game, not teaching how to catch and throw, that is on the parents. It's mind boggling that in our town some children still couldn't catch by 6th grade (I am talking children who had been playing since kindergarten). Where do you think their sticks go after practice and for the 9 months after the season? You guessed it, right into the closet. Those children only play the game to 1) please their parents or 2) to hang out with the perceived "cool" kids. | 
