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    Feeling protective

    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...
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    Help me help my daughter

    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...
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    Need Help Setting Goals for Fall and Winter....

    Just wait until they turn teenagers and the boys start coming around. Then you'll REALLY need this advice. *grumbling* I hate boys.
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    *

    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...
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    Going to war

    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...
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    Going to war

    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...
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    Going to war

    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...
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    Needs a New Bat....?

    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.
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    What do I say......help

    Pretty simple. You: You want to play CF? Go earn it.
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    Noob question for coaches

    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...
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    gossip in the rumor mill

    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.
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    She had to sit out

    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.
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    Question: what would you do?

    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...
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    The Agony of Defeat

    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.
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    12 reasons I now hate the Olympics

    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...
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