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I have coached summer softball a few years (and again this year). The age range is 10-12 years old. It is very hard for me to motivate these girls. When my teammates and I were in...well, any grade in school, we were so different. I've tried praising them, but they are so used to hearing it it doesn't do any good. I've tried making them mad, but they don't get mad, they just cry. It is very frustrating. I have tried to tell myself that maybe my age group was just overly athletic/aggressive/motivated, but I don't think that's it. It's too wide-spread.
I have had discussions with other people that feel there shouldn't be winners and losers. I put it to them this way:
Do you want a person working with you who does not heed deadlines because they've never had them? A person who feels no need to do their best because they know/feel they are going to get the maximum salary anyway? Who is going to end up doing the work they don't feel they have to do?
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