How a 13yr old thinks ?

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Mar 20, 2015
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So yesterday before my daughters JH game, we decide to do some soft toss in the back yard. I set up the net, get the buckets and start tossing balls to my daughter. Well we go through 25 and she hasn't hit any. I say " don't worry lets keep going. I then toss another 25 and she foul hits 2 of the 25. FREAK OUT!!!! She freaks out and says "I can't hit the ball! I don't know whats wrong!" So in order to calm her down (game starts in an hour" I call out the hitting doctor (my wife) and have her watch her bat. After two balls, my wife says your lifting your head and swinging over the ball. KEEP YOUR HEAD DOWN. BINGO! She starts to crush them. Hour and a half later she at the plate, and hits her 1st HR of the school season (3rd game). Unbelievable, how an hour earlier she was freaking out saying "I've lost my swing, I can't hit the ball!" I wonder sometimes what goes on in that hat rack on her shoulders? :confused:
 
Feb 15, 2013
650
18
Delaware
Well there's butterflies, and bows and flowers and cats and dogs and math class and boys and softball and clouds and rainbows and cars and music and bugs and rain and wind and sun and snow........ Plus some other stuff.
 
Jun 12, 2015
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Well, at 13 I was far too self centered to even consider playing a team sport anyway (if I'd been remotely athletic, which I wasn't) so she's ahead of where I was at that age regardless. ;) Congrats to her on the big hit!
 
Mar 23, 2014
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18
SoCal
Minecraft and mermaids..... Yup, she built a PC facility in her MINECRAFT world. Lol

Congrats on the dinger!!!!!!
 

JAD

Feb 20, 2012
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Georgia
I call out the hitting doctor (my wife) and have her watch her bat. After two balls, my wife says your lifting your head and swinging over the ball. KEEP YOUR HEAD DOWN. BINGO! She starts to crush them. Hour and a half later she at the plate, and hits her 1st HR of the school season (3rd game). Unbelievable, how an hour earlier she was freaking out saying "I've lost my swing, I can't hit the ball!" I wonder sometimes what goes on in that hat rack on her shoulders? :confused:

Be careful how much information you divulge...your wife may become inundated with video clips from DFP members asking "what is my DD doing wrong?"....
 

sluggers

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May 26, 2008
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Dallas, Texas
I have two sisters, three daughters and now a granddaughter.

I'm convinced that around 13YOA, the brains are removed from all teenage girls. They start growing back sometime in their first year of college...when the clothes don't magically jump up off the floor and into the washing machine.
 
Jul 27, 2015
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That, my friends, is a great humble brag.

First home run!!! How exciting. I hope you have a video of it.

So yesterday before my daughters JH game, we decide to do some soft toss in the back yard. I set up the net, get the buckets and start tossing balls to my daughter. Well we go through 25 and she hasn't hit any. I say " don't worry lets keep going. I then toss another 25 and she foul hits 2 of the 25. FREAK OUT!!!! She freaks out and says "I can't hit the ball! I don't know whats wrong!" So in order to calm her down (game starts in an hour" I call out the hitting doctor (my wife) and have her watch her bat. After two balls, my wife says your lifting your head and swinging over the ball. KEEP YOUR HEAD DOWN. BINGO! She starts to crush them. Hour and a half later she at the plate, and hits her 1st HR of the school season (3rd game). Unbelievable, how an hour earlier she was freaking out saying "I've lost my swing, I can't hit the ball!" I wonder sometimes what goes on in that hat rack on her shoulders? :confused:
 
Nov 26, 2010
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113
Michigan
Kids? Have you seen Some of the stuff adults post on here about performance issues their children are having. How kids think is the least of it.

Congrats on the HR
 

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