Now that my two girls are done with softball, 17 years of it, I think back of things I did and things I wish I would have done differently.
Although being given good advice along the way I sometimes let my emotions takes over. I remember a friend who had a daughter pitch for Arizona, she was as good as it gets . He said because he expected so much he never really enjoyed her college career. He warned me before my girls got to college and I’m thankful he did. I tried my hardest to enjoy every second and for the most part I did. I slipped a few times over the years but I did try.
Travel ball I was tough on my girls. To tough, I’m lucky they continued to play. I saw many kids give it up because their parents expected so much or were just flat out mean and clueless. Their is nothing wrong with hard work and to be disciplined. We need a lot more of that with today’s youth. Let your daughter play the game, she’s going strike out looking with bases loaded, she going to give up a long ball to lose a game and she going a kick a ball in the field more then once. Let it go. Talk about it the next day. Don’t make her feel horrible on the way home from a game. Bottom line all games are made to have fun and enjoy.
What advice do you have ?