My first instinct was to snow her with some BS: “Oh, no, honey. You’re good at sports! You just have to keep trying!”

But I decided to tell her the truth, without embellishment, and I could see it stung a bit.

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Everyone is talking about Caroline Wozniacki caddying for Rory McIlroy at Wednesday’s Par 3 Contest. But let’s be honest — the real star of the show was Bubba Watson’s caddie, his one-year-old son. Look at that face. (Photos: Harry How/Getty Images; Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images)

Someone just won Take Your Child to Work Day.

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A good coach can be the most amazing mentor to young kids, someone whose words they’ll remember forever. But a bad coach — even one bad coach — can be beyond damaging and completely ruin a sport for a young person, and shake their confidence in irreparable ways.

Would you let your kid try MMA fighting?

This girl is AWESOME. (Found by Sasha, our contributing editor) 

Before the seventh inning of last night’s Yankees/Red Sox game, second baseman Dustin Pedroia was informed by manager Bobby Valentine that his wife Kelli was in labor! After hearing the news, he promptly high tailed outta there, as babies wait for no one. No word yet on the impending addition to the Pedroia clan, but we send our well wishes to the family!

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Sports Cheat Sheet

Entirely useful.

You name the sport, and kids as young as fifth grade are being scouted to be the next LeBron James or David Beckham or Sid Crosby, the next Brittney Griner or Hope Solo or Nastia Luikin. There’s money in it, not just for the kid and the family, or the Hollywood-caliber agent, but for the coaches that bring these kids to the elite high school team, the elite college team and so on, until and if he makes the pros…read more

The Hunger Games has set the record for the third-largest weekend debut, the biggest March opening of all time, and continues to sit at number one in the box office (we here at the Parenting offices aren’t immune—there’s been a lot of talk about who’s seen it, who will see it twice, and who still plans to go). With so much buzz, it comes as no surprise that children are flocking to archery ranges to emulate the story’s bow-toting heroine, Katniss Everdeen, as the Chicago Tribune reports. Read full post