Rio wants to learn with the best. Can you blame him? So yes, very swiftly, we made a decision to move half our family to Santo Domingo which will allow Rio to train 5 days a week. The opportunity presented itself and he grabbed it. We are supporting it. The privilege of homeschooling allowed us to make this decision.
Are there good trainers in the USA, of course. There are two things I want to list here for you to think about, money and happiness.
Money is needed to train and to play, here, there and everywhere. There is no baseball guide that will show us how to get from point A to point B. We are not part of a “club” either. The point is we were spending money running in circles, which left none of us feeling good. We, the parents and children have met good people along the way, don’t get me wrong. However, what ever it is that we have been looking for concerning the kids and baseball seemed to be out of reach.
You know when you feel good and you just know when something is right? It that happiness? Well the day we decided to meet some trainers here in DR, we went to the fields, I felt it- happiness. Most importantly Rio felt it. The kids were on the field playing their hardest but with joy. That is contagious. Can you blame him for wanting to be a part of that?
We brought up our kids bicultural and bilingual. They may look like gringos, but their hearts are here in DR – happiness.