{"product_id":"kid-gloves-how-baseball-helps-children-overcome-21st-century-problems-9781476658315","title":"Kid Gloves: How Baseball Helps Children Overcome 21st Century Problems","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Christopher Dale\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Baseball - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e New problems, meet old game. This book explores how America's most time-tested sport can inform and counteract today's unique childrearing challenges. Modern kids face obstacles blissfully absent from their parents' childhoods. Soaring gun violence and record drug deaths. Academic hyper-competitiveness, exorbitant college costs and a yawning generational wealth gap. Social media's addictive algorithms and dialogue-coarsening extremism. And then there's us parents. The unintended side effects of today's kinder, gentler approaches to childrearing can impinge upon mission-critical qualities like grit, independence, and the ability to form true friendships rather than accrue fair-weather acquaintances. Our national pastime hits home as a reliable, relevant salve to confront such challenges. Baseball has more than a few tools in its toolbox--and its batter's box--serving as counternarratives to some of today's least tenable trends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This book addresses how all facets of baseball--from Little League participation to Major Leagues fandom, and from running out a grounder to geeking out on statistics--can help children build buffers against modern-day America's pitfalls. Today's parents would be well-advised to get their kids away from their smartphones, off their rear ends and onto a ballfield. In 21st century America, the baseball diamond is a parenting gold mine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47892911390871,"sku":"9781476658315","price":3494.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781476658315.webp?v=1781189922","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/kid-gloves-how-baseball-helps-children-overcome-21st-century-problems-9781476658315","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}