Anonymous wrote:DD is a young athlete, at 10, she has always exhibited athletic ability and talent. She loves sports, the competition, pushing herself, always looking to get better. At some competitive events, be it basketball or soccer, she hears some of the nasty comments coming from parents on the opposing team, she usually ignores it and focuses on the game. Last night though she was in tears after her game. There were parents calling her # and telling the ref she did this and she did that, and talking loud enough for her to hear that she doesn't know what she's doing, that she's a bad player. This was more than one parent doing this, I heard a little of what she heard from where I was sitting but she heard a lot more down on the other side. She's playing a new sport this summer, and because she's athletic, she does well and dominates the game, but isn't as comfortable as she is in her main sport. Why are people so nasty? I would never speak of another child that way in public. Can you crazies just leave these kids alone?? How empty is your life that you are getting so upset about a game for 10 YOs?? Let the refs do their jobs, and get a life!
It's tough as the kids get older to realize that their "athletic ability and talent" changes as other kids improve, get older, faster and better. It's hard to go from being the parent of the kid who was the "star", to the parent of a kid who is just an average or even below average player. It's possible that your kid is becoming more aggressive because she too now feels the pressure that it's no longer easy to be a "star" and she hears advice from coaches and adults "push harder!" and that it gets interrupted literally.
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