Howdy all,
My son is 5, and is a wide-open energy dynamo. He also has a knack for tactical skills. I taught him how to throw a 6’ spinning rod when he was 3 years old by giving him a very basic order of operations (a tactic), and he’d follow it perfectly. We routinely get people fishing near our boat clap for him lol. For he and I, it’s old news, but he eats up their attention.
So, here’s the deal. He’ll make for a fine little sportsman. We tried to enroll him in a soccer league here in town but we didn’t know about it until way too late.
For this summer, it’s up to me to teach him. The problem is, Daddy is a dunce. My father wasn’t a ball player (too many ponds to fish in to have time for ball). I literally bought my first baseball glove TODAY, so at least they are intuitive enough. I remember a few basic things (dribbling a basketball like a white dude, dribbing the soccer ball like the fat kid I was, throwing a football in a wussy fashion, and leaving tennis to the skinny rich kids). 
So here’s my question. What fun little games do you folks give your kids to do that will develop good sports skills?
For baseball, I plan on strapping a 5-gallon bucket to a tree, and painting a spot on the ground as “pitcher’s mound”, and let him practice on getting the balls in the bucket.
For soccer, I think setting up some cones in the back yard to practice dribbling the ball around them with his feet.
For weightlifting, when his age is appropriate, I can handle that. I lifted weights in high school (“advanced PE”) for three years.
For golf, Grandpa gets called, and Daddy sneaks off to the Tailrace canal.
But what other things do y’all do for very young kids to keep it fun, but also begin to develop useful skills?
