VoyForums
[ Show ]
Support VoyForums
[ Shrink ]
VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, 2, 3, [4], 5, 6, 7 ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 06:33:05 04/03/03 Thu
Author: Milli
Subject: Hooray! It isn't *just* me! (m)
In reply to: djknappsak 's message, "I am NOT a soccer mom" on 00:20:44 04/02/03 Wed

My 10 year old dd is playing softball right now. She has practice on Mondays from 6-7:30pm, has batting practice on Thursday night at the batting cages (6-7pm), and a game on Saturday afternoon which she needs to be at the field an hour prior to the game for practice. That's 3 days of practice a week, two of which are school nights that we need to plan our lives around SOFTBALL. And we've been doing this since January. The season won't end until mid-May! Don't get me wrong, I am glad she likes softball and is doing well, but c'mon! These are a bunch of 8-10 year old girls.

I too expect that practice will end at 7:30. Not 7:40 or 7:45. I thought it was just me since many of the parents I see at the field seem to be as "into" these children's activitites as much (if not MORE) than their kid. When it's 7:30 on a school night, I'd like my family to (finally!) have dinner together. I'd like my dd to have some time to unwind from her day before it's bedtime. She needs a shower and time to gather her stuff for school the following day.

She has to do all this in an hour and a half -- less if the coach wants to chat with the team.

Grrrrrrr

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Replies:

  • There was this attitude that I totally despised -- spugduck, 06:49:55 04/03/03 Thu
  • Ya know....(m) -- Milli, 09:45:12 04/03/03 Thu
    [ Contact Forum Admin ]

    Forum timezone: GMT-8
    VF Version: 3.00b, ConfDB:
    Before posting please read our privacy policy.
    VoyForums(tm) is a Free Service from Voyager Info-Systems.
    Copyright © 1998-2019 Voyager Info-Systems. All Rights Reserved.