Softball

My daughter's softball team is 3 - 0. She pitched today, her first full game of the season.

But, I ran into something I've never experienced before. A team that doesn't keep their own scorebook when visiting team. I caught a batter out of order; when they tried to argue, I showed them my book and said show me mistake. Because they didn't have a book, they said that it wasn't my call to make, a coach should. I said I am a coach. They argued that scorekeepers don't belong in the dugout. I shook my head, tactfully not pointing out that I'd been in the dugout for 21 years, but focused on the batter who was out of order. This team couldn't even produce a line-up card for us after the game started.

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This sort of addresses a problem in the larger world too.

Kids are so being discouraged to be competitive that the people running sports are forgetting to teach them to play to the rules and the spirit.

Many then give up that sport later because when they reach a stage where they have to play by the rules and be competitive, they can't understand it!

You really do have to laugh - complaining that kids and young adults have no sense of community and no disipline or are just hooligans and then you look at how they've been brought up with absolute no realisation of consequences.

At least when I grew up, if I broke the rules, I got the consequences (even if the consequence was a clip round the ear.)

No - I don't have kids, but I spent 10 years as a cub scout leader so have had a lot of influence over kids - and still do!! SOme of my cubs are grownup now and I'm so proud that they turned out well and that I had a part to play in that!

I believe in letting kids compete - you have to learn how to loose as well as win and you have to learn that there are some things that you're not good at and thats OK.

I also believe that you shoudl let them learn consequences - adn that means giving adults back the power to discipline.

There is absolutely NO excuse for abuse or beating of any human being, but most of us grew up gtting a smack when we needed it - and we all seem to be OK....

(this is, of course, a very broad view of OK where Gatchamania comes under "normal")

Sorry - this is a bugbear of mine. I've had to deal professionally with adults who were still children due to their upbringing...

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Maddy, you are preaching to the choir. We are raising a generation of children who are not going to know how to deal with people who are not all two-faced, sun-shiny smiles. I live by this rule with my children: Don't leave bruises. Children currently have more power than adults, fortunately only a few realize how to abuse it.

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Why do men snore when lying on their backs?
Because their balls fall over their butt holes and they vapour lock.

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Oh, Maddy, I think our lives are running parallel. My daughter bridges to Cadets in a month and a half, while my son is First Class working towards Star. I've been drafted to do Tour Permits for his troop.

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Amethyst, all of you have already said it all! I'm so sorry you had to undergo such a situation but you did good to make your point and stick with it! Sometimes there has to be someone that needs to do things right!

Unfortunately, that's today's world and it's a pity that in sports, which one day was so very useful to teach kids rules, responsibility and teamwork, this is not showing as it once did! My kids are too young to compete, being almost 6 and 4.5 respectively, but I'm taking them to football and gymnastics lessons. Until now I'm not disappointed with the coaches cause they're teaching them the good way and the most important things, and this has shown in the attitude of my children. I'm saying "until now" because I don't know how the trend will become once they grow up and head on in RL! As parents we're trying to do our best to teach them!

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To be or not to be a gatchamaniac - that's the dilemma!

Not softball, but close. My son's baseball team had their second game tonight and are now 2 - 0!

Yes that's we're I've been today, running errands with hubby and watching baseball. It would have been nice if it weren't so cold and rainy here.

See ya'll in the morning. I'm heading to bed to warm up.

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