Okay, we recently left a softball team my daughter was participating in because one of the assistant coach's daughters thought it was okay to punch my daughter in the back, pull her hair, tell her that she sucked at softball and the list goes on. Plus this assistant coach told us that he could spank our child while she was in his dugout for being upset at his daughter bullying her and we could do nothing about it. Needless to say, we moved back to her old team which is better..mostly.

There are three sets of parents. One who sits almost on the board and doesn't like us and feels we are threatening her daughter's position, one set that is pretty nice but has gotten dragged in by the other two and then the three brain cell mother and grandmother. The first two are tolerable and come with the territory of travel softball, or so we've been told. The mother and grandmother are just awful. They have never spoken to us since we joined the team. They refused to send e-mails to us to include us on the snack list to bring for the girls. Their daughter is a bully and says things like"I have a glove like a tiger". Okay, I keep a scorebook of plays and errors. This girl is lucky if she catches the ball and if she is hitting, she either strikes out, hits the ball and it gets caught so she is out or hits the ball to where the runner is at and they get out.

So long story short this parent went out of her way to yell at the coach for having her daughter sit out one inning in a practice scrimmage. In addition, my daughter recently injured her wrist sliding into home base which required x-rays at the hospital where the grandmother worked. Can you see where I am heading? Yes, the granddaughter on the team accused my daughter of not being hurt because her grandmother looked at my daughter's medical file. Plus the mother and grandmother discussed my daughter's medical file in the stands with the other parents. I guess she slept through the class on HIPPA on her job training.

The good news is everyone learned a valuable lesson that night on right and wrong. It is just sad that the children had to be witness to such witless behavior. I just hope this mother and grandmother got their madness out of their system. Maybe their daughter can focus on her softball skills now instead of her bullying skills.