What Is Catching Thoughts?
Catching Thoughts is a baseball-themed emotional awareness game designed to help children understand how their thoughts shape their feelings and behavior.
Created by Christian transformation coach Jayne Boggs, this hands-on game gives kids a simple, practical framework for mind renewal they can actually see, move through, and remember.
This isn’t just a game.
It’s a training system for identity, resilience, and faith in action.
Why This Game Matters
Children today face anxiety, fear, self-doubt, comparison, negative self-talk, and identity confusion.
Most children are never taught how to manage their thoughts.
“Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
— Romans 12:2
Catching Thoughts turns that biblical principle into something children can practice in real time.
Because when you teach a child to catch a thought early, you don’t just improve behavior — you shape identity.
How Catching Thoughts Works
Every round begins with a real-life situation a child may be facing: a failed test, a friendship issue, feeling left out, fear before a game, embarrassment, or anxiety. From there, players physically run the bases..
Home Plate - The Situation
What is happening right now?
Children learn to pause before reacting.
First Base - The Identity Thought
What am I telling myself?
“I’m not good enough.”
“I always mess up.”
“No one likes me.”
“I can’t do this.”
They learn to name the thought instead of being controlled by it.
Second Base - The Feeling
How does that thought make me feel?
Sad. Angry. Afraid. Embarrassed. Discouraged.
Thought → Feeling
Third Base - The Behavior
How do I respond when I believe that thought?
Withdraw. Shut down.
Overreact. Give up.
Thought → Feeling → Behavior
Back to Home Plate -
Replace with God's Truth
What does God say?
What truth replaces the lie?
“I am loved.”
“I am growing.”
“God is with me.”
“I can learn.”
New Thought → New Feeling →
New Response.
When you change the thought, you change the outcome.
Real Life Application
Catching Thoughts helps children recognize negative thinking, understand their emotions, replace lies with truth, and build emotional resilience through movement, discussion, and repetition.
A Moment I’ll Never Forget
During one of my early sessions using Catching Thoughts, after we had run the bases together and talked through a situation he was struggling with, a little boy looked up at me very seriously and said,
“You’re going to be famous.” I smiled and gently asked him why he thought that.
He said, “Because this is going to help a lot of kids.”
In that moment, I felt confirmation.
Children know when something is helping them.
They know when they feel seen.
They know when they finally understand what’s happening inside their mind.
This was never about attention.
It was always about impact.
When a child realizes they can catch a thought, replace it with truth, and respond differently…
That changes more than behavior.
It shapes identity.
And identity shapes a lifetime.
What’s Included in Catching Thoughts:
Who It's For:
- CHILD THERAPISTS
- SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHERS
- ORGANIZATIONS
Ready to Step Up to the Plate?
Equip the children in your life with tools to strengthen their minds and shape their identity
Book a Catching Thoughts Workshop
Bring Catching Thoughts: Faith & Focus Baseball to your school, church, or organization and learn how to help children process their thoughts, emotions, and identity through a biblical lens.
Adult Training Workshop
Small Group & Private Children Workshops
Also Available via Zoom
