We live remotely and my 12 daughter wants to learn about cricket and how to bowl.
There’s not much cricket close by and we look at youtube videos but I’d like to ask if she should be looking at the stumps when she bowls or an area on the pitch. When she looks at the stump the ball bounces twice before it gets to the wicket. She is quite small. We’d appreciate some advice.

Hi Terri, the truth is various bowlers have had success using different methods. Some watch the stumps; others watch a place on the pitch and others still use more peripheral vision and feel to align their bowling.
It is quite difficult to run and look at one exact spot, so early on I would encourage your daughter bowl more with feel.

Have a target an appropriate distance away. (This might be anywhere from 8-16 meters / most certainly not any longer). The actual distance is only important in that your daughter feels like she can easily get the ball there with one bounce.
Next place a big target on the ground, I use a painting drop cloth which is 1.5m x 3m. A big piece of cardboard, or a blanket, anything that you can make smaller as she improves.
Place the target on the ground up near the stumps and have her bowl off one or two steps with a view to landing the ball on the target. When she starts to have success with this you can do two things-
1. Increase the run up to provide more momentum
2. Decrease the target to increase the challenge

While your daughter is doing this have her experiment with
a) watching the stumps,
b) watching the target on the ground,
c) and most importantly bowling with her eyes closed. This makes her brain have to work out what it feels like to bowl the ball the correct length.

Note as a bowler we do decide what length we want to bowl but then our hand eye does the rest. It is true that some grips assist various length and some exaggerated body actions help with length as well. Most bowlers feel a yorker is best held more in the ends of the fingers and a bouncer is best delivered with maximum energy and pull down.
Good luck and remember persistence is your greatest friend.

That's so kind Bryan. Thank you for taking the time for offering such an in depth answe. My daughter is very excited and can't wait to have a go. Thank you

Hi Terri, I agree with Bryan's advice...

Will just add... bowling is very much a feel game. Feeling the ball leave the hand. What I have found works well for most to feel the release of different lengths is to place a string across the pitch (in nets if possible) where if the ball goes over the string the ball will land on a fuller length and if it goes underneath the string it will be shorter in length.

In this way the bowler can feel the length of the ball as soon as it leave their hand.