For us, in 10U the parents were crazy but almost in an understandable way. It's all new for most of them, and the focus is very much on your own kid at that age. It's not fun to deal with but you can kind of understand it. Even looking back on my own crazy first year 10U year with my DD, there...
I blame gymnastics for all the back problems I had when I was in my teens and early 20s. I was not competitive, just did it for fun. But I was at the gym (by my own choice) 4-5 days a week after school. I loved it. Pretty sure all that unnatural bending did a number on me, though.
One of DD's...
It's just a different kind of crazy. I'd actually take teenagers over toddlers any day. Toddlers are my parenting Achilles heel. It's a good thing they're so cute.
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I try to remember being 13 and how hard it was. Everything mattered SO much. The stupidest things felt like the end of the world. It's still not easy to deal with though. My older daughter is 15. My house is filled with crazy hormones.
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Our team has the players doing strength and agility twice a week right now. I do think it helps. Strengthening the muscles around problem areas seems to be recom
I've encouraged mine repeatedly about weight lifting and also yoga, my personal favorite exercise. But she's in slacker mode...
My daughter had physical therapy yesterday for about her 4th or 5th overuse/growth related injury. She's 13. Even as she plays softball 11 months out of the year, I agree that it's not healthy. We made her play basketball. We made her play soccer. She led the way to travel ball from rec. She put...
Thank you for saying this. I was going to keep my mouth shut but I was thinking, why is this a "mom" duty? Being an involved-with-sports mom has clued me in on how much sexism there still is. I was team manager when DH was coaching and did a ton of stuff for the team, yet we had a dad/AC...
I don't think it's even a rare thing. By definition, coaches are invested. They've probably been practicing with their own kid 3x a week for years, just because they enjoy it. Even a kid who's not naturally talented will do pretty well with all the extra practice they're probably putting in. My...
For some reason I have never liked "lady." Probably because of growing up always hearing my mom telling me to act like one (a task I found impossible and not really worth working for). I like "players." Sometimes I still say "girls" but my girl is 13 now so I'm working on that.
To me, there are way more important things. DD's played for both. I've seen some amazing parent coaches, and some truly terrible non-parent coaches. And vice versa. I think if that's all the checks the box for them, they might be in for an unpleasant surprise.
I suggested the Prisms to my Demarini-loving girl when she needed a bigger bat. My reasoning was, it's pretty. But she ended up choosing the CF Zen and I think she loves it even more than the CF8 she had before.
I think your approach was reasonable and her reaction was not reasonable. Is she young? I wonder if she has a lot of older-than-she-is dads trying to tell her she's wrong a lot. That she actually IS wrong about this wouldn't make her feel any better even if she believed it. If you're keeping it...
I'm not sure the chemistry thing has anything to do with being buddies. Sometimes you watch a team warm up and think, this team's just ok. Then you see them during a game and the way they work together puts their outcomes above where it looks like they would be based on the individual players'...