Posted on 04/28/2015 10:50:15 AM PDT by cdga5for4
For those of you who haven’t read the article, it’s a fictional account of a girl’s first step into girls travel basketball. There is certainly some hyperbole in the account, although there are some points that many of us can relate too as well.
The point of the three-part blog post is that as parents we need to find out ways to make the best of these situations, and the later posts will discuss ways to do so effectively.
Not a course I would recommend. I tried that on my daughter’s softball team - and the idiot head coach badgered a girl into going outside her comfort zone in trying to catch balls he hit to her.Note to coaches: You have to teach a kid to walk before you can teach her how to run.In no time flat he had knocked out the poor girl’s tooth! And there I stood, wondering if I was liable for what had happened.
Keep your mouth shut or remove the child from the team.
This is life.
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“...admit that yes, Coach lives matter....”
You forgot the hashtag, Norm... #Coachlivesmatter...
Off to GULAG with you, comrade. Da. No wodka you get...
I knew you’d understand me. Of all Freepers, your is the most gentle soul...
You gotta get with the times. hashtags were like DUDE! a yrear ago!
Rioting is the new black...er I mean....
I’m racist!!! OH GAWD!!!!
Punish you child because you don't like the coach?
lol
Mom, “Honey are you OK?
Dad, “Suck it up, buttercup.”
My house growing up mom was saying suck it up, but she's from Texas.
I always told my kids there are aholes in the world learn to deal with them.
There really is nothing new under the sun!
Shoot my mom too! Me being the 5th kid and danger prone, led my mom to love me but have little sympathy for the small stuff! Get a bandaid kid and keep playing!
Iowa farm woman!
Not at all.
“Child, the coach is an idiot. I think you can do better with a different one where you’ll be happier anyway.”
But hey, if you want to leave your kid in the hands of someone you have an issue with to make him ‘feel’ better, that’s your kid and your call. Thats the awesome thing about some parents. They let their kids rule them.
Awesome for liberalism anyway.
Depends on the issue. If I suspected he was homosexual, or he was a foul-mouthed abuser, or about as intelligent as a bag full of hammers, I'd probably get him out. But my younger son's high school football coach was a classmate of mine who I never liked; in his younger years he bullied a lot of kids, and was the leader of the "jock" gang.
But he outgrew that crap and became a fine coach; my son got to two state finals in three varsity years, a two way starter as a senior (OT-DE at 180 pounds!), largely due to excellent coaching and being goaded to work hard at it.
I still didn't like the coach, but pulling my son would have been punishing him!
Good for learning how to build one, I guess.
oh man..
here we go..
i was an umpire in 10 to 13 little league baseball..
i got paid a whopping 18 bucks a game...
how many kids did i throw out of a game..
a whopping zero..
how many coaches did i throw out of a game..
a whopping zero..
how many parents did i throw out of a game..
more than i got fingers and toes..
and i was an umpire for a YEAR...
the worst thing that happened to little league is not coaches or umpires..
IT IS PARENTS...
take a real good look at yourselves before you judge others..
(hint, i had to be escorted to my car by the coaches of both teams because a parent said he was going to stab me)..
No question that some parents are total idiots that shouldn’t have kids at all.
Tell me the truth. Would you rather have a helicopter parent destroying the season for you or would you rather let little Johnny go on his merry way and serve the rest of the team better, for his parents absence?
There are great coaches. Good people. And there are those like the one that was molesting a former neighbor’s underage daughter.
In school.
Personally I think it makes a lot of sense that if a parent and coach are at odds where the word ‘hate’ comes up, I think it’s time to part company.
It’s a game. Not a life’s work.
Here it is..
“ ump you are an a $$hole of which i have never seen. You and your whole family need to be killed”...
This was screamed to me after calling a kid out at third base...
i called both coaches to home plate..
before i could say a word to the coaches, the same parent screamed..
“If you eject me from this game i will do you bodily harm. I will stab you i. The gut and watch you bleed”.....
Parents are what makes kids turn into thugs..
period....
end of discussion
The article said it was u-10. That's way, way, WAY too young to be on a young player's case like described.
I coached u-10 girls soccer for two seasons. In our second year together, we went undefeated in our league, three of my players are going to play on the local varsity when they get to be sophomore age, and the parents of my young ladies bought me a monogrammed team shirt designed by the girls when the season was over.
That's because it was fun from start to finish. I even let them choose their team nickname because there were four teams from our town, and they even made up their own cheers. And let me tell you, these kids worked their tails off in practice and in games. I never said so much as a raised voice word to any of them all season except to yell across the field at how proud I was of them.
You can be good, you can have expectations, you can even make players work hard. But at that age, you can and must have fun. Making the game fun for the girls gave them the desire to improve.
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