Where/who do 3yr olds learn from?

As I was on the yahoo page I noticed this video/article clip about a little girls reaction while at a baseball game. The father who is in the stands sees this foul ball coming and makes a great leaning catch over the railing, everyone cheers like normal. His younger daughter sitting next to him is reaching towards him with the face of "let me see daddy". So of course he gives his daughter the ball, right away she throws it over the railing without even thinking. The crowds gasp was the only thing that startled her making her think that she did something wrong.

I thought about Bauerlein and what his reaction would be to this clip. I believe he would say that this three year old is addicted to watching TV, and has learned bad habits from watching ignorant people at baseball games throw the balls back.

Now think about it how often in a baseball season do people throw the baseballs back after catching them, hardly ever. And seriously how often do three year olds watch baseball games on TV? By reading the article the dad mentions that he plays catch with his little daughter at home, and that the reaction after receiving the ball is to throw it back. So really she was doing what she was taught.

So there was no excessive viewing of baseball games on TV. This little information about the little girl playing catch with her father is the little type of information that Bauerlein leaves out of every little statistics that he talks about.