sports Archives - Her View From Home

Thanks to You, Friend, For Cheering for My Kid When I Can’t Be There

“Mom, I won my race!” Tears instantly sprang to my eyes as I sat in the parking lot 40 miles away from one of my twin daughters who just competed…

When I was involved in extracurricular activities, I would often look in the crowd for my parents and find that they weren’t there. I would search…

My teenage daughters teach a preschool dance class, and one night not too long ago, they had a very unhappy client. The poor thing was crying…

Recently I read an article called, “Dear Target, Why Are All Your Shorts For Girls So…Short?” In the piece, the author wrote a…

Dear Target, You know I love you . . . but we need to talk about tween girls for a minute. More specifically, we need to talk about what you’re…

OK friends, full truth: what I am about to offer to you is an outsider’s perspective. I hated playing sports growing up. Hated it. I was the kid…

April is here! You know what that means, parents! Time to dig the baseball gloves and soccer balls out of the garage and brush off the cobwebs!…

Few things are more entertaining than watching a pack of kindergarteners play basketball. If you’ve ever been to a Y-league game on a…

I’m not really a sporty person—more like a proud bench warmer. In college, I won my first athletic award for “Most Academic Athlete”.…

I watched you tonight as you watched your daughter playing ball. She’s starting varsity as a sophomore—not bad for a 15-year-old kid! She ran up…