The Mental Load After A Youth Baseball Loss (And How I Don’t Bring It Home)
Youth coaching looks light and fun from the fence. After a loss, it is not. This is how I decompress, process, and handle the parent dynamic without burning out.
Richard Lemon
Richard Lemon is a Creative Web Experience Developer at Ideebv, Maastricht. He writes about frontend craft, AI workflows, and tools that make work feel less like work. Youth baseball coach, chronic self-optimizer, builder in public.
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