First Team Sports Blow

I’m afraid I made a parenting error.

Every year I ask My Kid if she wants to play soccer and every year she says “no”.

But, this year she said “yes” because we thought she could play with her friends.

At the end of the last school year, I was talking on the playground with the mothers of two of My Kid’s best friends in her class. Their girls were on the same soccer team and really enjoyed it. My Kid was interested in playing soccer with her friends. So I paid my money and I signed my kid up and I requested that she be with her two friends. Their mothers they signed up their girls and each requested the other two.

Well, we’ve gotten the team rosters and none of our girls are on the same team.

I think the family with the dad who volunteered isn’t even assigned to his own kid’s team. Now I understand the concept of not coaching your own that in theory, but I don’t see how that is going to work in logistical family Saturday morning get out of the house reality if the dad and the son and the daughter are all on separate teams with separate schedules.

I don’t know. I’m disappointed for my kid. But, I’ll keep my mouth shut and see how it plays out. Maybe she will be fine. Maybe she knows some of the kids I don’t know.

But, as a family unaccustomed to being dressed at 8:00 am on a Saturday, much less outside and ready for athletic activity halfway across town. This does not bode well.