[officialtony]

I DON'T do baksetball ( spelling Humor ).
I do however, do softball, and I will tell you, the parents there have been MUCH better than many of the baseball parents at the high school level. I don't know where you received your input from, but my experience has been as stated herein.
By the way I am a parent of five, and I will disagree with your theory of " 10 times harder . . in the teen years ".