Sports parenting is challenging enough.
Now throw in a divorce, disputes over custody time and how and who should pay for athletic fees and camps and it just becomes that much more difficult. But divorced sports parents need to suck it up and get on the same page with the parenting plan and sharing expenses for youth sports.
An anecdote I share with my team's parents at the beginning of every season is the infamous case of Alec Baldwin vs. Kim Basinger:
After a nine-year marriage, Baldwin and Basinger divorced and waged an eight-year custody battle involving $3M in court costs and legal fees, and over 90 court proceedings!!!! Who benefited from that?
As painful as it is, sit down and calendar the yearly sports schedule, including summer clinics...and then create a parenting plan that works around that schedule. Not the other way around.
