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Mommy T-Ball Challenges

May 1, 2009 12 Comments

I am a mom who didn’t set a good example this week…

Hypocritical:
I have a firm rule that if you join a team, or play a sport, you are committing to it. All of it. You don’t just participate when you feel like it. You’re in or you’re out.

I played hooky from Grant’s T-ball practice. I just wasn’t feeling up to helping herd a bunch of cats, er, kids. I didn’t want to stand in the outfield and help Grant stay focused. I didn’t want to listen to him whine that the only fun part is hitting the ball, or listen to him cry when someone else fielded a ball that he wasn’t paying attention to anyway.

Intolerant:
Do not volunteer as a baseball coach for 5 year olds if you don’t understand 1) the fundamentals of baseball; or 2) the fundamentals of 5 year olds.

    • Please do not manually move my kid’s legs so far apart that it looks like he’s ready to do the splits, rather than hit a baseball at the plate.
    • My child is right handed. Please do not place the bat in his hands and move his left hand so that it is the top hand. Hellllooooo? I’m a girl and I know this.
    • Do not pitch the ball to him from the side and call it a “toss-up.” Why not just call it a “freak him out, make him back away from the plate because that isn’t where the ball come from when you’re batting” exercise?
    • Do not try to explain to my 5 year old the difference between an inside pitch and an outside pitch. Don’t tell him where the ball will go, when hit, based on those assessments. He’s 5. Just be happy he hit it at all and runs in the right direction.
    • Do not show 5 year olds the “proper” finger positions on the laces of the baseball. At this age, the goal is to get them to pick the ball up and throw it to first base. What we have is a team of 5 year olds who fight for the ball and then take 2 minutes to get their fingers into position on the ball before they throw it. By the time they do it, the batter not only has reached first base, but he’s crossed home plate and is back in the dugout getting his Gatorade.

Ungrateful:
I am a horrible person to criticize volunteers. Horrible! These coaches have the very best of intentions and are putting up with crazy 5 year olds who are OPKs. (Other People’s Kids.) They are freely giving their time, energy, enthusiasm and expertise.

This is actually one of Grant’s better-behaved practices…. there’s no crying, whining or fighting with the Evans twins.

Maybe soccer season will be better.

Filed Under: Grant, parenting, Rants, video

Comments

  1. Heather says

    May 1, 2009 at 11:01 PM

    you’re not an awful person! we love you! all those things sound very frustrating! :o)

    Reply
  2. Xazmin says

    May 1, 2009 at 11:07 PM

    Oh my! That is hilarious! Ahhh, kids’ sports…what would we do without them?

    Oh yeah, we’d stay sane.

    Reply
  3. MiMi says

    May 1, 2009 at 11:15 PM

    Oh my hell. That makes me cringe thinking about summer soccer. With my 5 year old…
    Macey

    Reply
  4. imjacobsmom says

    May 2, 2009 at 1:21 AM

    Jacob played T-ball on a team with one boy that was completely dressed in uniform right down to the spikes. The parents and their entourage of about a dozen came to cheer him on or berate him if he messed up. The rest of the team had on their oversized t-shirts and picked dandilions in the outfield…

    Reply
  5. Infarrantly Creative says

    May 2, 2009 at 3:08 AM

    Oh my gosh that video made me LOL! I can’t wait to see Isaac like that one day. And I don’t think you are an awful person…you just seem to to have the mouth to say what ever other mom out there is thinking. LOL!

    Reply
  6. Tanielle says

    May 2, 2009 at 3:30 AM

    Ah too fun!!! When Bug was 5 and playing baseball he peed his pants in the out-field, then stopped the game to come running in! What fun!!!LOL

    Reply
  7. Shawn says

    May 2, 2009 at 3:56 AM

    Ahh that would explain why I have taught my two little darlings to excel at watching TV!

    JK! No hate mail please!

    Reply
  8. immyyas says

    May 2, 2009 at 4:14 AM

    Ohhh believe me I get it… I am trying to teach my 3 year old how to ride a bike… not going so well!!! Kids are wonderful & so much fun, but soooo annoying & stressful too!!!

    Reply
  9. Amber says

    May 2, 2009 at 6:10 AM

    Ha! You think you’re a bad parent?? At least you let your kids do sports!! Maddison has never been in ANYTHING! Anything.

    I have such an aversion to become one of ‘those moms’ or ‘those families’ that I haven’t put her in anything.

    But ya, that stuff would be SO annoying to me.

    Reply
  10. Pam says

    May 2, 2009 at 11:34 AM

    This was so funny to me on so many levels. First of all, when I read the title of your blog I cracked up. Very witty, my friend.

    Then there is the whole video clip. Hysterical!

    Thanks for dropping by my blog and leaving me a comment. It supports my habit as well. Plus, it’s nice meeting new blogging friends. Do come again.

    Pam

    Reply
  11. Housewife Savant says

    May 2, 2009 at 11:54 AM

    You’re right; you ARE an awful person.
    Er, no.
    But I’ll keep reading, just to see how Grant turns out.

    Reply
  12. Jen says

    May 2, 2009 at 6:17 PM

    That looks about how William would look if he played baseball 🙂 I also like the team spending time getting the fingers into the right position b4 throwing – serves Coach right! You are just an awful awful person, I don’t know why I come here to read this stuff lol!

    Reply

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