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Driving across town nearly an hour each way for a pitching lesson, my head was ready to explode from the negative spew coming from the passenger seat. DD had a list a mile long regarding what?s wrong with school ball but didn?t want to hear from me why things work the way they do, why coaches act the way they do, or why kids whine like they do.
I know why teens think and feel like they do (immature brain development is the truth), I understand why soon-to-be grads act out like they do (fear of growing up and leaving home sets in for a while), and I totally sympathize with how the adults who are trapped with them during the day must feel when the afternoon bell rings. None of that stopped me from asking the pitching coach to bean the kid upside the head with a ball (not that she did or would but I felt a little better saying it). So I cooled down during her lesson and enjoyed the progress she has made since coming off a winter of shoulder rehab; listened to her chatter happily with a different adult; watched her actually listen to the coach explain the challenges of coaching school ball vs travel. Coming from a different person seemed to help because the ride home was less negative.
Supporting our crazy DD?s may lead us to therapy or drive us to drink from adult sippy cups more often than may be appropriate but those long rides are priceless.
What do you talk about during those long drives to lessons and games?
I know why teens think and feel like they do (immature brain development is the truth), I understand why soon-to-be grads act out like they do (fear of growing up and leaving home sets in for a while), and I totally sympathize with how the adults who are trapped with them during the day must feel when the afternoon bell rings. None of that stopped me from asking the pitching coach to bean the kid upside the head with a ball (not that she did or would but I felt a little better saying it). So I cooled down during her lesson and enjoyed the progress she has made since coming off a winter of shoulder rehab; listened to her chatter happily with a different adult; watched her actually listen to the coach explain the challenges of coaching school ball vs travel. Coming from a different person seemed to help because the ride home was less negative.
Supporting our crazy DD?s may lead us to therapy or drive us to drink from adult sippy cups more often than may be appropriate but those long rides are priceless.
What do you talk about during those long drives to lessons and games?