[akcskye]

I came into the school this morning with my son and daughter for their basketball practice.

We have home games tonight and I was going to help set up whatever we had that needed to be in our slow cookers to get warm be ready by this afternoon.

Well the coach was passing out the kids new shooting shirts, of which, I did not buy because the kids never sent me home an order form, and she had bought 2 of them for my kids.

Fine, I'll pay her...no problem there...she was nice enough to think of me and do it out of her own pocket.

HOWEVER, the kids got to have personalized stuff on the back. My sons says his first initial and last name.

Again, NO problem.

BUT, my daughter's says "Twinki 2"!!!

Okay, twinkie isn't even spelled right, for one. For 2, she has a good friend that people always thinks looks like her, but the friend is a very jealous little friend and always wants to be "first", so her shirt says "Twinki 1".

I did NOT authorize this, and had she told me that she was going to put that on her shirt, I'd have said NO, and she knows that.

The coach didn't think anything was wrong with it, saying 'well, the kids wanted to have some fun with it', but like I told her, 90% of the other kids just have their last name and/or an initial on theirs, so I'm NOT going to have my daughter going around in a shirt saying Twinki 2, and she knows I'd have said no had I known about it.

To me, it's fine to be called a nickname...but it's another to have a "put down" on your shooting shirt...when you're supposed to be viewed as a serious athlete.

UGH...the small stuff...sweat this one and stand by my opinion or let her wear the shirt and me forever be resentful of it?

The coach will let her wear one that has a blank back if I choose, and that's what I want, not everyone's is personalized and I'm tired of them always pairing my daughter and this girl together...the girl is a great girl, no problem...but many times the pairing and comparisons hold MY kid back.

Her friend wants to be a diva, and any time she "cutes up" for a game, her performance suffers...and I don't want that same affect on my daughter...and it does happen when they try to "twinkie up". UGH

LOL thanks for the vent.