Little League umpires are not the show, kids are

So many Little League umpires think that the parents are there to watch how great they officiate the game. Wrong. They are there to officiate the game and not screw it up. The best umpire is the one that you don't notice. If, after the game, someone asks you, "who umped the game?" and you say that you don't know, that means that they umped the game correctly. Everyone is there to watch the kids, not the umpires. Umpiring is not a glory postion where you can excel and everyone marvels at how great you are. Umpiring is an attempt to call a game as perfectly as you can, avoiding making bad calls. In other words, you are expected to get everything right. If you don't, then you are a bad ump, depending on how much you screw up. No one ever says, "MAN, THAT UMP WAS SO GREAT TODAY!!!". If you do a perfect job, no one remembers it. If no one remembers that you umped the game, you did an excellent job. Lack of recognition is your goal.