Do parents drink at your tween’s sporting events?

[Anonymous]

I’d have to say it’s a significant minority with our club soccer parents, if it exists at all. Most of us have multiple games in a day and are drinking coffee or water.

I’ve honestly never even had a parent suggest/ask if I’d like something, even in a mildly joking way.

[Anonymous]

This doesn’t sound fun. It just sounds like a bummer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just curious. Seems like many weekend games the parents on the sidelines have beers in cozies or thermos with wine. My DS plays hockey and baseball.

Oh man. That's really low class... where do you live?

+1

[Anonymous]

Yuck!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The parents at the summer swim meets had beer or wine in discrete containers. Some drank like 10 beers in one evening.

One person drinking 10 beers and still driving their child back home? WTH?

There were quite a few functional (or maybe not functional) alcoholics at the swim club I belonged to. They were like grown up fraternity and sorority types. Order some pizzas, drink beers in coozies, time the meets. I’m not sure how they got home but it was a neighborhood pool. I was amazed at how much one guy could put away yet act pretty normal. I literally counted one time.

[Anonymous]

Drinking at hockey games is a big thing. I have two kids who play (in college now), but the AAA Club teams I'd say roughly half (sometimes more, sometimes less) of the parents drank a lot. Hard partying. No drinking and driving, but a lot of drinking.

Didn't see much of it at other sports though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just curious. Seems like many weekend games the parents on the sidelines have beers in cozies or thermos with wine. My DS plays hockey and baseball.

Oh man. That's really low class... where do you live?

NP and different sports but it’s common in Vienna. Definitely happening at PTA school sponsored outdoor events precovid too.

[Anonymous]

Lax tournament once.

One of the moms got so drunk she could not drive home.

Soccer- same. Soccer one parent arrested for DUI on way home with kids in car.

[Anonymous]

Yikes! My DS was. Swimmer in highs hook and college and this was not a thing. Unless no one invited me into their boozy circle.

[Anonymous]

I do during golf matches. Lots of other parents do too. There’s a snack shack at the 9th hole where you can buy beer.

[Anonymous]

I don’t understand. A game is a couple of hours, you can’t last through that without a drink at a children’s event?

Or if you have a series of games, you should be hydrating because you will be outside for a long time and driving frequently.

[Anonymous]

I would but I have to drive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just curious. Seems like many weekend games the parents on the sidelines have beers in cozies or thermos with wine. My DS plays hockey and baseball.

Baseball is the worst. We were soooooo happy when our sons dropped baseball. The parents drinking started with tee ball and got worse as the kids got older. I hated going to games because of the parent drinking.

[Anonymous]

No, not a thing.
But I might feel differently about swim meets at a local pool. Swim meets are just so long and hot that a cool beer might be nice. But sitting around a park for a soccer or baseball game I need to drive home from? No. That seems sort of alchy to me.

[Anonymous]

It has never crossed my mind to do this, but I’m not opposed! Not aware of it happening at our games though