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Nov 29, 2009
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It is different for everyone...I cannot tell you how many times I told my DD "hey, we need to go pitch" and she would sigh or complain, but once we got out there and started doing it she was OK with it. I used a combination of motivation techniques to get the desired result: your team needs you, I will take you for ice cream when we are done if you focus, you are running home from here if you do not start giving me 110%, I will fill up your car, your boyfriend can go to dinner with us tomorrow night, I am taking your phone for a week if you do not straighten up and concentrate. I was "good cop" and "bad cop" and DD never knew which one she was going to get!

I would use one line and it worked most every time. I would tell her "It's not me who is going to go out there and suck!" If I knew her friends were waiting for her I would cut it shorter so she could meet up with them.

Once she hit 16 and was consistently being tossed against the best teams while also coming into other games when the opposing team needed to be shut down the light bulb went on and she figured out why and what it took to be given the ball in the toughest situations.
 

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