Daughter plays high school ball. The team has MAJOR drama problems. It got so bad that last week some of the girls started yelling at each other and a football coach thought they were going to brawl. These types of things have happened more than once.
The coach apparently decided to have...
Here's the story. My daughter (an 8th grader) didn't try out for the middle school team because they were going to be all beginning players and she just didn't feel that she would get much out of it. Some girls quit the varsity team and left the varsity/JV teams a little short, so they had to...
My thought is that at 16, it's time for mom and dad to ease back a bit and let the child start to be more proactive for their futures. If your daughter isn't happy with her situation, she's old enough to have an adult conversation with the coach. If she isn't verbally skilled enough to do so...
I decided that rather than taking the confrontational approach, I'd take a more conciliatory tone. I explained to her that I thought she was a good girl and I was happy that she was my daughter. I told her that I wasn't going to dwell on why her grades slipping, but I was going to reintroduce...
I appreciate the input from all. I really don't think it's drugs, but I wonder about the depression. She has a distant relationship with her mother mostly because she disapproves of the choices her mother has made since we divorced. I try to encourage her to be more involved with her mother, but...
This isn't really about being a softball parent so much as it's about being a 15 y/o's parent.
She is a really good girl. She has a strong moral compass, she doesn't get in trouble, she's a good kid. However, within the last year we have been having trouble getting her motivated to do anything...
Seems the like the batting coach (who has a chance to see her swing live) might be a better resource for suggestions, and he might have some bats that he can let her swing to give her and idea.
I'm not a coach, so I can't answer from that perspective, but as a parent, there is something you may want to think about. My oldest daughter's team practices are very demanding. They are all exhausted after practice. They learn a ton about playing hard, working through fatigue to make plays...
In the future, you might want to make it a part of the tryout process for the girls to disclose all social media accounts and friend you (or your wife perhaps) and just peruse the postings prior to making any offers.
So incredibly stupid. MLB players get to go home so they can watch their children be born and little girls whose parents pay for them to play are treated like little softball zombies.
Had a case where mom put daughter in softball in the spring and fall. It cut into my client's time for visitation a lot. Mom claimed that daughter loved softball and would be harmed by not being allowed to participate at the expense of my client's time with child. Dad claimed that the daughter...
On the other hand, I see these girls at tournaments carrying around fries and corn dogs between games on 90+ degree days and wonder how they don't throw up on the field.
I'm not sure why I'm supposed to get excited about a tournament that would be played once every four years and be covered on NBC's third shopping channel sandwiched between two sports I don't care about and hosted by some dude who does't have any idea what softball is thereby requiring the...
I have found that we are both happier when I act as her #1 fan and not her coach. I haven't really taken the position that I am paying x number of dollars for this so she had better put in the work that I think she should. I have viewed softball as less of a financial investment for my child and...
At 11 years old, who knows what could happen. She could get there and find that she meshes really well with these girls and want to make a change. If you're OK with that, I'd let her go. If you have no intention of letting her switch even if she finds she likes the other team better, I'd save...