Parents Coaching on the Sideline – What Should I Do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Abby Wambach said in a podcast that she handed up lollipops to parents on the sidelines of her kids' soccer games. Which I thought was a nice say to say keep your mouth busy

100% trying this with my husband

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Abby Wambach said in a podcast that she handed up lollipops to parents on the sidelines of her kids' soccer games. Which I thought was a nice say to say keep your mouth busy

Which yes, I realize is totally passive-aggressive, but... I like the idea!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Abby Wambach said in a podcast that she handed up lollipops to parents on the sidelines of her kids' soccer games. Which I thought was a nice say to say keep your mouth busy

I have a friend who does this--stocks up after Halloween on the caramel apple lollipops!

[Anonymous]

A friends team put "that Mom" in charge of policing the other parents on the sidelines. It worked, but the parent has to have a certain level of self awareness. Might not work for everyone.

[Anonymous]

This describes our entire time with McLean. "Sally, pass it. Darla, man on! Sabrina, on your left. Penny, don't let her do that!!"

Bunch of loud mouth a-holes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This describes our entire time with McLean. "Sally, pass it. Darla, man on! Sabrina, on your left. Penny, don't let her do that!!"

Bunch of loud mouth a-holes.

I feel you, but I’m not part of the McLean team. Our high-level team has those loudmouth parents—so annoying.

[Anonymous]

I don’t care the parent is more effective than the coach! Coach has no command- where do you want to play? And confused the kid bc they sub every moment they get and switches them in different positions!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had a coach ask a ref to give a parent a yellow card....

Best Advice!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t care the parent is more effective than the coach! Coach has no command- where do you want to play? And confused the kid bc they sub every moment they get and switches them in different positions!

Are you the one who keeps yelling at other people’s kids on the sideline?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:demand death by single combat

YESSSS!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t care the parent is more effective than the coach! Coach has no command- where do you want to play? And confused the kid bc they sub every moment they get and switches them in different positions!

Then why don't you coach?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t care the parent is more effective than the coach! Coach has no command- where do you want to play? And confused the kid bc they sub every moment they get and switches them in different positions!

They already got your money $$$, they don’t care now.

[Anonymous]

Abby womback chews tobacco.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t care the parent is more effective than the coach! Coach has no command- where do you want to play? And confused the kid bc they sub every moment they get and switches them in different positions!

Then why don't you coach?

Not the pp but some of us do actually know what we're talking about. I honestly echo what the coach wants like I know he wants his winger to stay wide I'll remind them to get wide or stay wide. I'm not disrespectful or wrong so I've never heard anything from any of the other parents or the coach. I've actually been asked to be an assistant but my full time job schedule doesn't allow it. The biggest issue I've always seen is when parents are loud and wrong or don't know when to be quiet.

[Anonymous]

“XXX…this is super embarrassing for all of us but we have a couple of the girls that have asked us parents to be quiet as all of the directions from the sidelines confuses them. I know you are super passionate and I really appreciate it but is it possible for you to join me and the other parents in supporting the girls request?”

I directly confronted a parent not on my team last weekend who was letting a young female referee have it and I found it completely disrespectful and annoying to the ethos of youth soccer. 99.9% of our kids are not Messi or Marta so chill the f out…

If you are competitive, fly to Vegas, enter a hi-roller Poker tournament and use your fancy DMV house as collateral. Not that serious, then sit the f down and let the kids play!