Little Hoopsters

We signed JD up for a basketball program at the YMCA called Little Hoopsters. The program is geared towards boys and girls ages 3 to 5 and introduces fundamentals like passing, dribbling, and shooting. Today was our second class. JD is doing well, particularly with shooting. We got him a kids basketball last weekend so he can practice at home. What I find the most interesting about the program is that parent participation is required and all the parents are dads. With most kid activities, the moms tend to dominate - whether by choice or necessity. But not at Little Hoopsters - and I suspect most youth sports. I suppose that's because sports are a more natural way for dads to bond with their kids. Or perhaps the dads have dreams of their kids becoming football stars or basketball stars or soccer stars or any old star. And this is their way of helping that process along. Whatever the reason, in most (but certainly not all) cases, sports and dads go hand-in-hand. There's a part of me that wants JD to be a sports star - probably because I wasn't - but I'm trying to follow his lead rather than pushing him towards something he's not personally interested in. Will be interesting to see how the whole sports thing plays out for him and AJ over time.