Supervised Sport? Do You Play Any? Is It Wrong ?

[daycare]

Every day at outside play, we play some kind of sport. Yesterday it was baseball. We play with age appropriate items. Softer ball, foam bat and etc. my group is mostly 3 and 4 year old kids.

I always coach the kids and they love it, it is never unsupervised!

During our baseball play I had a boy age 3.5 that would not listed at all. Has been doing this for the past month. Long story short, this kid wanted to do nothing but bat and would not stay out of the way of the person batting. I told then a million times it's not your turn yet, please do not walk near the person batting because you can get hit with the bat. Well eventually the kid gets hit in the wrist with the bat. Foam bat. Leaves a tiny bump on the wrist. I took them inside, washed it and looked at it to make certain it was nothing serious. Of course it was just a little scrape. I inform mom at pickup and the mom seemed a little taken back by it.

So DCD comes this morning and tells me that it’s not appropriate for the kids to be playing baseball??? Huh why? He states that the boy has a huge welt on his hand from the blow he took from the bat. I look at it and I can’t even find it??? HUH what?

I told the DCD well, I told your son a million times yesterday not to walk into the batter, but they refused to listen and eventually they found out why. DCD got really mad and told me, well if this is the way you are going to be then my child is not going to be participating in outside play anymore, you scared them from wanting to play outside and I don't think that this is fair.

I said nothing and just let it go and the DCD left. Am I wrong for allowing the kids to play structured sports together as a group?

BTW They also have free play when they are outside and no child has to play the sport that we are playing. They have several other options.

[Zoe]

I don't see anything wrong with what you did. If you were playing any other game, even FREE TIME, the kid would still probably have gotten hurt because he wasn't listening to you! Yesterday, all 4 of my dck's were running around. I told them over and over to stop running. One of the kids said, "I can run at home!" I told them, "Well then you can get hurt at home. But I don't want you getting hurt here." Not more than 30 seconds after I said that, my DS3 and the girl who said she could run at home ran into each other, bumped heads, fell onto each other, and hit their heads on my dvd shelf!

Thankfully, no one was hurt, but come on! Just listen already!

Sounds to me that DCD was just upset that his kid was hurt and looking to blame you instead of putting the kid responsible. Stick to your guns. The kid doesn't have to play baseball, just like you said. If he's "afraid to go outside" then he can sit out! I'm sure he'll tire of that after 2 minutes!

[SilverSabre25]

Wow...some people.

We don't do organized sports (mine are all too young but we wouldn't anyway unless the kiddos wanted to) but I don't see a problem with it. You warned, he ignored, he learned (we hope) from his mistake--natural consequence of getting too close to the person swinging the bat. The parents sound like the are totally over-reacting.

Kids will be kids, and that includes getting bumped/hit/scraped/scratched/bruised/whatever.

[kendallina]

I think it is fantastic that you are playing sports with them! You did nothing wrong, except maybe next time take a picture of the area for your records. Is DCB not there today?

[SandeeAR]

Wow...some people. ......

Kids will be kids, and that includes getting bumped/hit/scraped/scratched/bruised/whatever.

Just what I was thinking. Parents that don't understand this need to put their kids in a bubble!

[laundrymom]

Soooooo,.... Dad expects you to do what with him??? I think its great that you do this. I do think that when you see dad you should say, hey dad, I am not allowing Josh to play baseball anymore because he doesn't follow safety rules, and you don't back me up on them. He knows your angry with me for him getting hit even though I told him repeatedly to take turns with other kids and stand back. So he can either play on his own or sit and watch but he will not be allowed to participate with the others. I would also make sure to have the kids wear helmets batting.

[Unregistered]

I want my child at your daycare

Do you even realize how great you are for offering supervised sports at your daycare? Parents should feel lucky to have you. As a parent of a child in sports, I know first hand that accidents can and will happen and are usually kid's own fault for not listening or paying attention during the game - and that's normal and comes with the territory - and I explain that to my kid when my kid gets hurt. There's the occassional bad kid on the team who just likes to hit everyone on purpose and thinks it's funny - and us parents have to parent that child. But I highly doubt the kid will want to be excluded from the daycare baseball team and I doubt the parents didn't know about the baseball until kid got hurt. Parents are way overreacting. The whole point to team sports for kids that age is to learn that it's not if you win or lose, it's how you play the game and to learn how to particate well in a group and to learn the basics of the game. Wish I lived in your area - I'd want my kid at your daycare. At least you already know that he can't even ask his kid to stay inside - licensing regs require outdoor play except for inclement weather. He can ask that his kid not be allowed to play baseball with the other kids but I'll bet he'll quickly change his mind once his kid comes home crying that he's not being allowed to play baseball with the rest of the team.

[jen]

Can you say, "wimpy kid." That is what they are going to get. A whiney kid who doesn't know how to play with others. Take a picture of his HUGE welt ASAP.

Then let them know that he will either participate and follow the rules or they should find other care.

What in the world is wrong with people!

[daycare]

Can you say, "wimpy kid." That is what they are going to get. A whiney kid who doesn't know how to play with others. Take a picture of his HUGE welt ASAP.

Then let them know that he will either participate and follow the rules or they should find other care.

What in the world is wrong with people!

you made me almost have coffee come out my nose.....

Thanks for the feed back. For some reason I started to feel bad for a moment.

[laundrymom]

you made me almost have coffee come out my nose.....

Thanks for the feed back. For some reason I started to feel bad for a moment.

Well stop! You rock!!

[jen]

you made me almost have coffee come out my nose.....

Thanks for the feed back. For some reason I started to feel bad for a moment.

No problem...

It's not you...it's them. It's my new mantra...try it, you'll like it

[daycare]

No problem...

It's not you...it's them. It's my new mantra...try it, you'll like it

lmao I love you new mantra........its not me...........Its you.....................I do love it....

[Abigail]

The only thing I can think of is maybe the dad overlooked that fact that you were using a foam bat and not a regular bat. If he understands that then maybe he will apologize.

[nannyde]

Every day at outside play, we play some kind of sport. Yesterday it was baseball. We play with age appropriate items. Softer ball, foam bat and etc. my group is mostly 3 and 4 year old kids.

I always coach the kids and they love it, it is never unsupervised!

During our baseball play I had a boy age 3.5 that would not listed at all. Has been doing this for the past month. Long story short, this kid wanted to do nothing but bat and would not stay out of the way of the person batting. I told then a million times it's not your turn yet, please do not walk near the person batting because you can get hit with the bat. Well eventually the kid gets hit in the wrist with the bat. Foam bat. Leaves a tiny bump on the wrist. I took them inside, washed it and looked at it to make certain it was nothing serious. Of course it was just a little scrape. I inform mom at pickup and the mom seemed a little taken back by it.

So DCD comes this morning and tells me that it’s not appropriate for the kids to be playing baseball??? Huh why? He states that the boy has a huge welt on his hand from the blow he took from the bat. I look at it and I can’t even find it??? HUH what?

I told the DCD well, I told your son a million times yesterday not to walk into the batter, but they refused to listen and eventually they found out why. DCD got really mad and told me, well if this is the way you are going to be then my child is not going to be participating in outside play anymore, you scared them from wanting to play outside and I don't think that this is fair.

I said nothing and just let it go and the DCD left. Am I wrong for allowing the kids to play structured sports together as a group?

BTW They also have free play when they are outside and no child has to play the sport that we are playing. They have several other options.

I would just have the kid sit with some cloth books off to the side when you are doing sports. That way he can do something safe and you can still supervise the games.

[daycare]

I would just have the kid sit with some cloth books off to the side when you are doing sports. That way he can do something safe and you can still supervise the games.

this is exactly what happened today... DCB started crying when i told him that he would have to sit with special books today while we all played basketball. I felt really bad, but It might teach the kid not to cry wolfe......