October is Breast Cancer awareness month. But I can say for sure, that for me, and for my family - every month is breast cancer awareness month. Today, I want to write an open letter to all the girls out there who have a softball mom, because I lost mine 3 years ago to breast cancer that had metastasized to her brain. 

After weeks of messing around with positions and line-ups, trying to figure out the ones that work best for the team - and listening to plenty of parent complaints in the meantime, the time had come to do that thing that nobody wants us to do. We sat the girls down, told them this was our last week of dilly-dallying, and that each child was personally responsible for earning their own spots on the field and in the line-up.  The bomb had dropped

We took a poll on our Facebook page this week and asked whether or not school ball teams should play the BEST 9 on game day, or whether seniority should play a role. You can see that poll HERE Y'all actually participated and commented (which we LOVE btw) and overwhelmingly the answer was that come game day, and especially come championship time - THE BEST 9 PLAYERS are who should be playing on the field. 

Softball parenting is a hard gig. For that matter, parenting any athlete, or child for that matter, is a hard gig. Todays 5 things at 5pm, are 5 hardcore softball parenting truths that are realized over and over again on a daily basis by softball parents around the world! 

We’re back for our daily 5 things at 5! Super short, and sweet (sometimes not sweet) random straight forward tidbits of inspiration and knowledge and softball words of wisdom.  Today – 5 Things at 5 – The subject is How to be a Good TEAMMATE!  Keep your ears open and your mouth closed. In other…

Because we know that nowadays most of us have the attention span of a fly when it comes to actually reading things on the internet.... We hope you will enjoy our very short and sweet new editorial addition to our website, where we share 5 things at 5pm (Eastern Standard Time)!