Posts Tagged ‘softball’
World Series Pins Buying Guide!
The last thing you want to do is look like a full at your World Series and show up with either NO trading pins, or pins that are just blah! Today, check out this World Series Pins Buying Guide from All Star Trading Pins
Read MoreWhat If? | Softball is For Girls
What if, we made sure our kids ALWAYS knew first and foremost that the outcome of a game, or the results of their performance NEVER EVER affects our love for them or how proud of them we are.
Read MoreFunny Things Softball Players Say | Softball Is For Girls
Softball Players say Funny things. Today, we share some of our favorites. We recently had a Facebook post looking for the funny things softball players say. After reading through the over 200 comments, with a couple of nose snort laughs, we realized that to offset some of the stress of being an athletic parent, we…
Read More10 Tips for Fastpitch Softball Players | Softball Is For Girls
Ball FIRST! As with all things in life, priorities will make or break us. We have to ‘bloom where we are planted’ so to speak, and in fastpitch defensively or offensively, it means your first priority is the ball. If you are always moving toward the ball, always following the ball, keeping your eye on the ball, it will lead you to exactly where you need to be. So keep it simple, and repeat the mantra BALL FIRST in your head while you are playing. And remember the ball is your friend…it’s one of the main reasons you are on the field. So keep it simple. Ball first.
Read MoreThe Drive to Practice | Softball is For Girls
A reminiscent highlight reel of some of the happiest moments in my parental life, spent in the car with my daughter on the drive to practice, while I got to know her as not just my daughter, but my friend.
Read MoreWhat Matters Most | Softball is For Girls
Celebrating reaching 170K Fans on social media! With a little reminder about what matters most! When the day comes that you fold up your folding chair for the very last time, no matter where you have traveled, how many trophies or medals you have won, regardless of how many tournaments you have played in or the awards that you have gathered – it will be the PEOPLE and the relationships that you have met and made along the way that mattered most.
Read More10 Travel Softball Truths
There is more than enough room on the field for every child to succeed! “Better” is nothing more than an opinion. And we all have them. The feeling that someone is better than your kid (which there will always be someone better) is not something to feel defensive, angry or jealous over. It is these ‘better’ athletes that will make your child strive for better. No one is dimming your child’s light by being better than her!
Read MoreRespect the Dirt | Softball is For Girls
The school my children attend, recently completed the construction of a new gymnasium at the high school to the tune of 7.2 million dollars. 7.2 MILLION DOLLARS! For a place to run and play sports in. A place to have pep-rallys. Yeah, it’s nice…but 7.2 million dollars?????? This sparked our curiosity and we started doing…
Read More5 Ways to Ensure Your Youth Athlete is Miserable and Fails
Youth athletics. Sigh. What a mess it has become. Dead are the days of recreation athletics and low pressure games where parents are just happy to see their kids outside, playing a game with their friends. Now youth athletes are under soooo much pressure. It’s become a job. And unfortunately, parents who claim to not…
Read MoreThe Fastpitch Players Face!
We have 4 daughters that play softball. And we can tell you, that the summer struggles with the fastpitch players face are REAL! Between the sweat, and dirt, and grit, and more sweat and dirt – plus helmets and facemasks and headbands and long hours on the field – acne is often a side affect of…
Read MoreFan Question Friday – ‘Softball is For Girls’ Answers
SHIRT SALE GOING ON NOW! Many Designs JUST $16! On any given day, SIFG receives an overwhelming amount of emails with fan questions, fan-shares and other awesome things related to softball! We love them – so keep them coming. We typically post them to the group and let the…
Read MoreSix Simple WORDS Your Softball Player NEEDS to Hear
What SIX SIMPLE WORDS DOES YOUR LITTLE DIAMOND DIVA REALLY NEED TO HEAR? On the SIFG Facebook page, we are inundated with questions and rants from parents and even from players, about the problem with parents on the field. Let’s be honest! None of us are ALWAYS flawless spectators. We all, as adults get emotional,…
Read More6 Things to Remember this Saturday | Softball is For Girls
It’s Friday night. If you are playing this weekend, that means you have checked the weather a zillion times, have ran to the store, loading up on waters and snacks for the day, checked the weather again, made sure the uniform was somewhere you could find it in the wee hours of dawn when its…
Read MoreMy Daughter is Perfectly Average | Softball is for Girls
ALL POSITION SHIRTS ARE BACK UP AT THE STORE FOR A LIMITED TIME! 1st, 2nd, 3rd, SHORTSTOP, catcher, pitcher, outfielder, slapper, hitter! They are all UP! When it all started out, I have to admit I thought my daughter was a super star. Like seriously the best ball player…
Read MoreShe’s a Shortstop Dangit! | Softball is for girls
Free Shipping ALL Weekend LONG! Use Code Freeship at www.store.softballisforgirls.com Let’s just speak hypothetical for a moment. Your daughter is a junior in High School and the head coach of (insert any of the best SEC Division 1 schools names here) watchers her play. Your daughter played a great game at short stop. After the…
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