This past weekend at the softball field, after some (cough cough) gentle reminders that the girls would have to EARN THEIR SPOTS,  we actually got to see it happen.  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 … [Read more...]