Kids and Sports

[BallHawk]

Just wrong.

[GrnBay007]

BTW he was mad because of a call at the plate involving his kid sliding. Well even his kid came up to me later and said I was out ump good call

comical when the kids act more mature than the parents.

[Tony Oday]

its just sad some of these parents...

[Oscar]

I think the kids have a pretty good idea of whats right and wrong. Sometimes the coach may wind up being one of the crazy parents were all talking bout. We play a team twice a year that has just that person in charge. Last season it was really bad.. The kids in the other dugout were chanting and heckling our team.. Though I wasn't the head coach I was big time pissed. When my daughter came up to bat I could have very easly turned into one of these morons. Instead, I told her to choke up on the bat and put the ball in the grass...But, don't be afraid of striking out.. You can't get a hit if you don't swing.She had a good game but we still lost.. But, I feel that even though the score was in there favor.. We were the better team that day. The team record doesn't always reflect the true meaning of the word.. Winner..

[GrnBay007]

Little League here is very strict on heckling, they don't tolerate it at all and it's really nice that way.

[Oscar]

I wish that was the case here. It can be very frustrating as a coach and as a dad.

[woodbuck27]

The worst I ever saw was at a 4-year old soccer game. Yes, I said 4-year-old. This is amoeba soccer at it's finest and we had a very talented little kid on our team that was a little faster and better than everyone else. Some guy from the other team was loudly heckling the whole game and at one point this talented kid collided with his kid and he started screaming that it was intentional and they were playing dirty and that the coaches should control their players. He was yelling at the kid and at the coaches. The league was self-umped, after all, they were 4-year olds. This man had the poor kid in tears thinking he had done something wrong and was heard after the game "explaining" to our coach how he runs too fast and we should make him slow down. His wife was following him around begging him to shut up. There were compaints made to the league, but I don't know what ever became of it. I certainly hope his behavior had no long-term effect on the little guy because I have never seen a child play soccer so well with such joy in my life.

** Fun generates enthusiasm

** Enthusiasm generates practice

** Practice makes good players

[Fosco33]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/parenting/07/03/kids.sports.parents/index.html

[GBRulz]

What I don't get with so many of todays youth sports programs is giving trophies out to the 9th place team in a 10 team tournament.

Winning a trophy really used to be a big deal, now everyone gets one. Perhaps that a small factor in contributing to the greed of so many parents and even players. They simply take things for granted.

[BallHawk]

What I don't get with so many of todays youth sports programs is giving trophies out to the 9th place team in a 10 team tournament.

Winning a trophy really used to be a big deal, now everyone gets one. Perhaps that a small factor in contributing to the greed of so many parents and even players. They simply take things for granted.

It's to show the kids they're all special and even though they hit their first base coach in the nuts with a bat, they're still a champion.

[GBRulz]

What I don't get with so many of todays youth sports programs is giving trophies out to the 9th place team in a 10 team tournament.

Winning a trophy really used to be a big deal, now everyone gets one. Perhaps that a small factor in contributing to the greed of so many parents and even players. They simply take things for granted.

It's to show the kids they're all special and even though they hit their first base coach in the nuts with a bat, they're still a champion.

LOL - and when they hit the coach he turns around and sues, right?

[Deputy Nutz]

My parents refused to allow me join any select teams for Baseball and Basketball. They just didn't agree with the philosophy and the expectations that these org put onto kids. I wasn't allowed to play aau basketball or on traveling baseball teams in the summer. I had to either play on my school's team, or in a rec league that did not cut players. It enraged me to no end, and I hand one or two outburst during games because of my less than athletic teammates, but as a grew up it taught me how to be how to help my teammates and coach them, rather than just cutting on them all the time.

I also had a bit of a temper and a competitive edge to me, that my parents felt I might burn out if I played in altra competitive leagues. Did they make the right call in the end? I don't know, I still think I would have been a much better baseball player, but I think it helped me to be a better coach, and it will most likely help me be a better father of an athlete when my kids get older.

[BallHawk]

Nutz was an all-star?!?!?

[BallHawk]

And funny enough Rick Reiley's article in SI is about exactly what we're talking about. If you get SI you should read it, it is so true.