- Feb 24, 2014
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I'm trying to figure out a way to help one of my daughters that is sort of scared of the ball. I understand that she is scared of the ball because she is like a ball magnetic and has been hurt in the past by a miss caught ball. Also it didn't help matters that a varsity player at her school misjudged a fly ball and had her nose broken a few weeks ago. My daughter played rec ball about 4 years ago and is now on JV team. She will catch a ball that is thrown hard or hit to her but is scared she is going to get hurt. I feel that a lot of this is due to lack of confidence in herself, she doesn't think she can make the catch and therefore overthinks it or freaks and moves out of the way. When I ask her about it she just says she doesn't want to get hurt. I feel that if I could build her confidence up, that she can catch these balls she will do better. I know I can't just throw balls at her to solve this. I have thought about putting her in protective gear and working with her on catching fast balls. The protective gear may take away the getting hurt mentality while building her confidence that she can catch these fast balls? I'm sort of lost on this one so any advice would be greatly appreciated.