Kids & Sports
I am a single parent without family or friends nearby. Two of my children are involved in sports (my son will be starting this fall, my daughter has been in volleyball for 3 years). My daughter is going into HS and I just received the practice schedule for the HS team. Her practices are 3-4 days/week, all summer long, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY. I work full-time, obviously, because I am only one financially supporting us. There is no way I can logistically make this work with her practices, not to mention how I will get two separate kids to two separate games at the same time once those start? I told my daughter, she is going to have to find someone on the team who has a parent I can ask to drive her to/from practice for gas money, otherwise, she won’t be able to play.
This got me thinking though- who the hell makes these schedules? Don’t other people have to work? My kids could be spending their time getting into trouble, doing drugs, etc, but instead they want to play sports, but because it’s set up for SAHMs or people with retired parents who can help, my kids just have to miss out? Isn’t this just setting up kids of single parents (or of two working parents!) up for failure?!
Has anyone else came upon this issue as a single parent? What do you even do?