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VB: We are back with Howie McCann. Last time we spoke about ages three to six. What you do with your kid, you know, playtime, not being too serious in overanalyzing. And now we are getting into the age that things are getting serious. So, tell us about it.
HM: Well, ages six to nine are huge three years period. The first three or four or five years you're playing with your son. It's fun. As you get into six now you're preparing your son to get into Little League in my area it was called before Little League and minor league was the kids not old enough to play Little League under nine or not good enough to play a Little League. You had to try out to make the team so minor league was a huge deal.
The emphasis gets your son or daughter better and the motor skills are getting better. They're getting more in tune. What they want to do, they're starting to throw harder and understanding the game, their motor skills get much better, you know, so we've got to take them to the next level in the way you do that in my business, that's what I get most of my lessons is I start around six, seven in that area.
I've got a camp, where I've got twenty-five little five-year-olds, six-year-olds, seven-year-olds, eight-year-olds and nine-years-old, and they come consecutive nights. So this is a big time in the kids’ development. And you'll hear me say every week developing, I'm a developer. You want your son or daughter to be as good as they can be.
VB: How many times a week?
HM: Oh, my guys come usually once a week. But again, as a dad, as we said last week, you want to play with your son every day, like you get home from school. If you get home from work and you and your son wants to swing, swing, your son wants to play, catch, play, catch, your son wants to shoot hoops, shoot hoops. It's an ongoing thing. But I always tell people to come in my place. If you don't pick a bat up between Friday, today and Friday next week, you won't get any better. You have to go home and work with mom and dad. Basically, my job is to teach your son or daughter the correct mechanics of baseball or softball. But it's also to help you as a dad, go home and work with this guy. And that's what SportsEdTV is going to do for you. It gives you a place to go look and looking for information. This is how you do it. So instead of coming to Howie, you go to SportEdTV and you'll have the same information.
