Comfy Cup Chronicles

"You can do anything, but not everything."Word began to spread about Kyler's invention and boys started asking Kyler, "Hey, can your mom make me one of those comfortable cups?"  As time went on, we learned that there was a demand for a more comfortable cup among elementry age baseball players....a demand I couldn't keep up with.  It didn't take long to realize sewing Kyler's comfortable cups at the dining room table was neither cost effective nor timely. So, we began to research companies who

"If Plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters."The day after I challenged Kyler to come up with a solution to his uncomfortable cup problem, he came to me with an idea...  Kyler:    "Mom, I want to invent an athletic cup that is soft and lightweight that moves with mybody."  He held out his hand in a cupped shape with his hand and covered his parts.  "It should be this big and when the ball hits it, it absorbs the impact instead of pushing it all around the edges."Me:        "I love

"Stop talking about your problems and start thinking about solutions."After several enjoyable baseball seasons watching my son, Kyler, play t-ball, coach pitch baseball, and the beloved fast paced fun-filled game of machine pitch baseball, my son's baseball team transitioned to kid pitch.  The...game...slowed...down...t r e m e n d o u s l y...and the pitches got WiLD!  Kyler's coach started requiring all kids on his team to wear a protective athletic cup to all games and practices to protect