Esther McCarthy: The three kinds of parents you meet at kids' sports events

"I feel there’s a little bit of us all here, me included. We’re all just trying to do our best, remember that, darling children, when you’re telling your therapists in later years."

Esther McCarthy. Picture: Emily Quinn

Do you, like me, find yourself at the sidelines of some pitch on your evenings and weekends?

Remember when spare time used to be flittered away by meeting a friend, or reading a book, or trying on all your earrings and arranging them according to where they’d land on a rainbow?