How Sports Teach Kids Resilience and Confidence | Lessons from the Dugout
What do baseball, parenting, and real life have in common?In this episode of The Running Wine Mom, Samantha Cieslinski sits down with Ken Davidoff, longtime Major League Baseball journalist and educator, and Dr. Harley A. Rotbart, nationally renowned pediatrician, parenting expert, and youth coach, to talk about their new book, 101 Lessons from the Dugout.Together, they explore how lessons from baseball and softball translate into life skills young adults desperately need today — resilience, confidence, patience, empathy, and perspective — especially in a world shaped by social media pressure, comparison, burnout, and constant noise.This conversation is for parents, coaches, educators, and anyone raising kids who feel overwhelmed, behind, or unsure of themselves.What You’ll Learn in This Episode
- Why youth sports teach failure better than school or society
- How pressure and comparison impact kids’ mental health
- What parents get wrong about success — and what matters more
- How to help kids build confidence without tying worth to performance
- Why everyday moments matter more than trophies or stats
- How to teach kids to block out noise, labels, and criticism
- What empathy, teamwork, and presence really look like in real life
- 📘 101 Lessons from the Dugout: What Baseball and Softball Can Teach Us About the Game of Life
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