While instructing baseball lessons at a local baseball academy I observed the way the group of 13-16 year old boys communicated with one another. When they first entered the room they were silent not even making eye contact with each other. The younger boys seemed intimidated as they walked slightly slouched, their eyes shuffled from side to side and their facial expression looked like that of a child on his first day of preschool. The older kids in the group seemed to have walked slightly taller and with more confidence almost as if they knew they were superior to the younger kids. After putting down their baseball bags and grabbing their gloves I told them to circle up for stretching.
Still silence and blank stares across the circle to one another. Unable to take anymore of the tension and knowing they just needed someone to break the ice I decided to spark conversation. I started by asking Andrew, one of the 13 year olds, if he had done anything fun over the weekend. He......
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