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TBR’S ELITE PITCHERS BOOT CAMP The Gold Standard
Now is the time of year many athletes join us for an Elite Pitchers Boot Camp to make sure they’re best prepared for the upcoming 2025 season. We host one every month from October through February. If you or someone you know wants to travel to Texas to participate in this incredible event, don’t delay. Besides, the fall and winter are the best time to be in southeast Texas.
The Texas Baseball Ranch is the country’s top baseball pitching training facility, and our Elite Pitchers Boot Camps are easily the gold standard of pitching camps. It’s more than just a simple camp: An event! It’s an experience! It’s something that you leave knowing you made a great decision for the investment of your time and resources. Now more than ever, an individualized, hyper-personalized approach to pitching development is critical to catch up or surpass your competitive peer group. At the Texas Baseball Ranch, that is our entire focus: Helping YOU with what you need and designing YOUR personal plan. Nobody does it better. Others try, but it’s just not the same. We simply have better systems, people, and culture for training pitchers. The Texas Baseball Ranch is a
serious program for serious people who want serious results. Check out what these families had to say about their recent Ranch experience: “The Baseball Ranch is so much more than a ‘pitching camp.’ It is a respite from the ‘noise’ of Twitter, travel ball, etc. Coach Wolforth, his wife Jill, and his knowledgeable staff are a well of wisdom in pitching, movement patterns, and life generally. Their positive and encouraging energy was truly a blessing to me and my family.”
–David Skeels Parent, Aledo, TX
For more information or to register, go to TexasBaseballRanch.com/events .
TEENS AND CHORES How to Turn Reluctance Into Responsibility
No one loved doing household chores growing up, but chores are great for building character and work ethic. If we shirk our responsibilities, we inevitably turn into vegetables — couch potatoes. No doubt, convincing your teenagers of the value of hard work and the importance of doing their chores can be trying at times. Sure, many grumble about “kids these days” and how parenting used to be, but we should remember that child-rearing has come a long way since the old days. For example, when Aztec children refused to do their chores, their parents would hold them over smoking chilies, resulting in eye-watering, skin-irritating torment — basically the Mesoamerican equivalent of pepper spraying kids in the face. The
further we can get from that standard of parenting, the better. So, here are two tips to help convince your teens to chip in around the house — no peppers needed. FRAME IT DIFFERENTLY. Sometimes, all you need is a change in perspective. Rather than simply stating that things need to get done — “Because I said so!” — it can help to pitch chores as ways your teens can help around the house. Talk about everything that needs to be done to contribute to a healthy, happy home. There’s grocery shopping, feeding the dog, doing the laundry, maintaining the ever-growing collection of succulents, you name it. This will give them more perspective into how much their parents currently take on. Then, break down which responsibilities they’ll
be assigned to complete and how often you expect them to do each task. GOOD WORK DESERVES A REWARD. Chore money has always been a great incentive to encourage teens to do their part around the home. These days, there are even apps, like BusyKid, that assign a monetary value to different chores around the house. This doesn’t mean you have to break the bank, but teaching your kids that hard work pays off can motivate them to accomplish more around the home.
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