Ok, long story short ( I hope)
Daughter wanted to try out for a traveling basketball team one month ago. At this time, we had already bought her a prom dress.
Daughter was asked several times, that if she wanted this, she was going to have to make a commitment... giving up a lot of her summer weekends, etc. Mom had to make a significant financial commitment.
She understood, she tried out and she made the team.
10 weekends will be filled with tourney's starting this weekend, and goes til the last weekend in July, with a couple of weekends off, and a couple of partial weekends for a practice here and there.
Schedule of tourney's was received and she would be missing her prom... she took it well, no issues (also, no date) this is not for a couple more weeks.
Boy asks daughter to his prom in a town an hour away, and whom I have not met, and not had a mention about before today. In addition she would have to miss games in an upcoming tourney.
My response:
You agreed to the commitment, and you would be letting your team down also.
Besides the fact I have no clue about anything with this boy.
She says shes a teenager, basketball shouldn't be her life, she should be able to live, she cries to dad, she says mean things, yada yada yada....
Michele
Daughter wanted to try out for a traveling basketball team one month ago. At this time, we had already bought her a prom dress.
Daughter was asked several times, that if she wanted this, she was going to have to make a commitment... giving up a lot of her summer weekends, etc. Mom had to make a significant financial commitment.
She understood, she tried out and she made the team.
10 weekends will be filled with tourney's starting this weekend, and goes til the last weekend in July, with a couple of weekends off, and a couple of partial weekends for a practice here and there.
Schedule of tourney's was received and she would be missing her prom... she took it well, no issues (also, no date) this is not for a couple more weeks.
Boy asks daughter to his prom in a town an hour away, and whom I have not met, and not had a mention about before today. In addition she would have to miss games in an upcoming tourney.
My response:
You agreed to the commitment, and you would be letting your team down also.
Besides the fact I have no clue about anything with this boy.
She says shes a teenager, basketball shouldn't be her life, she should be able to live, she cries to dad, she says mean things, yada yada yada....
Michele