Sideline Karens

[Anonymous]

Discuss ONLY your own child's play while on sidelines and best to not even do that.

[Anonymous]

I think it must have been much worse than you thought. I have witnessed some unbelievable jacksssery on the sidelines and never thought of complaining (and not did any other arenas as far as I know) so for people to have complained it must have been bad. Tell your husband to chill.

[Anonymous]

Yup, completely normal for a coach to tell parents to shut up. You are lucky that you just received a civil phone call from the coach, some will bench your kid until you shutup.

[Anonymous]

I know kids on DDs team complain to the coach about what they here- he usually deals with it himself. To get a club owner involved it must have been bad

[Anonymous]

The only "Karen" here is your spouse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only "Karen" here is your spouse.

Lol-it’s true!

[Anonymous]

I think the Karen in this scenario is not the other parents but the parent feeling entitled to carry on about other kids on the team.

leave that to the coach unless in the privacy of your own home or car.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just started travel this year, so maybe my expectations are off. Wanted to get a gut check:

Spouse gets a little enthusiastic on the sidelines. Never calls out any individual player by name (other than our kid), but may call out if the defense or offense is lacking. Nothing mean-spirited, mostly encouragement. Sure, there were also some private parent-to-parent conversations on the sideline that may have been more critical, but nothing loud enough for a player or even another parent in the stands to hear . . . unless they were eavesdropping.

Yesterday, after the tournament weekend, spouse gets a call from the OWNER of the club dressing him down for his sideline behavior. Another parent on the team got the same call. I would have thought adults could have a conversation with each other, or even with the coach, before involving the owner of the entire organization.

IS THIS NORMAL?

Grodd

[Anonymous]

*gross

[Anonymous]

So wait - you think another parent should confront your husband and another parent for inappropriate comments, when that have already shown that they don't really care about acceptable behavior? They are Karen's because they told someone about the inappropriate behavior?

Got it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So wait - you think another parent should confront your husband and another parent for inappropriate comments, when that have already shown that they don't really care about acceptable behavior? They are Karen's because they told someone about the inappropriate behavior?

Got it.

The problem with the "Karen" brand is that it suggests the complainer has no legitimate complaint, which is not the case in this scenario.

[Anonymous]

Re: defense. Nothing pisses me off more than when the forwards and midfielders do not chase back and leave the D completely exposed.

And then hearing a-hole parents that know absolutely zero about soccer call out the D when their kid can never finish and is a lazy prima Donna.

You have permission to yell at your OWN kid all day if you like (and I can show you what those kids look like down the line after dad has screamed at them on the field incessantly), but you keep your trap shut about anything else going on on the field.

You are lucky Karen didn’t punch in your stupid f-ing face.

[Anonymous]

I call troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it must have been much worse than you thought. I have witnessed some unbelievable jacksssery on the sidelines and never thought of complaining (and not did any other arenas as far as I know) so for people to have complained it must have been bad. Tell your husband to chill.

Woman here. After a year of hearing sh@t like this I finally broke at a Memorial Day tournament and yelled “shut the f@ck up” to a d-bag dad that pulled that sh@t all year. Not my finest moment, but he’s been remarkably quiet this year.

[Anonymous]

I have seen parents ordered to their car a number of times because they would not shut up.