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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is on a sports team. OP, you’re getting some very bad advice in here. Tread carefully. I’d take it to sports forum. You’re getting a lot of young parents or parents of unathletic kids.[/quote]

Yep I agree.  I coach a rec team.  A few games ago my girls were all in tears over a mean player on the other team.  I asked them what she said and it really wasn’t that bad.  Something like, “learn to play” with a shove or two thrown in there.   Certainly nothing like the trash talk you’d hear daily among high school boys playing street basketball.   I basically said that’s not nice but they need to learn to not let it get to them.

Do you know what this girl is actually saying?  It could be something that’s pretty innocuous and your daughter is just thin skinned.  Or not.  But if that’s the case, and your lesson is she should be even nastier back, it could backfire and maybe your daughter will actually be the one saying way worse things and creating drama.

You need to figure out specifically what’s being said and to whom and rule out that your daughter is not overreacting before you start to turn this into a thing.[/quote]

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