May - the month no one talks to each other

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Arlington parental behavior is not unique to soccer. Arlington parents are Arlington parents in all aspects. About 95% of mothers/fathers in a household are a lawyer or a lobbyist. It's no wonder that lobbying and arguing a case spills over to their Snowflake and their sport team placement. You know what other Club is just like this? McLean. Now, I think Arlington parents are generally better than McLean parents. I find Arlington parents to be merely competitive with other Arlington parents and their kids' placement in the Club is a huge deal to them while McLean parents want to be superior all around. McLean parents are worse on the sideline. You learn to pick your poison---or you could just avoid both.

HBO has been running that Travel soccer movie 'Bad Parents' starring Jeanane Garafolo. While it's pretty awful the stereotypes of the parents and coaches in the movie are spot on. She starts out as not giving a sh*t about soccer, but soon gets caught up in the fever to do anything to get her daughter on the A team at all costs. It's hysterical and, yes, she doesn't like herself and what she's become at the end. The mom with 'the star', I have met her many times in the 6 years my kids have been playing.

Maybe some can watch it and gain enlightenment and take a hard look at themselves.

Mclean definitely more unhinged.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would hope your post was sarcastic since you have also used "you're" incorrectly (prove YOUR point).

It was sarcastic - notice that comes after "you think". I guess that wasn't as obvious as I thought.

If we are being precise, in your latest post, the period should have come inside the quotation marks. As in..."you think."

So after you corrected someone's grammar, you make the same mistake you corrected and in your attempt to make an excuse for that first mistake, you made another. Lol.

My usage is correct in British English. Now that's me trying to save face.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would hope your post was sarcastic since you have also used "you're" incorrectly (prove YOUR point).

It was sarcastic - notice that comes after "you think". I guess that wasn't as obvious as I thought.

If we are being precise, in your latest post, the period should have come inside the quotation marks. As in..."you think."

So after you corrected someone's grammar, you make the same mistake you corrected and in your attempt to make an excuse for that first mistake, you made another. Lol.

My usage is correct in British English. Now that's me trying to save face.

Self-deprecating humor is something we agree on. God knows how many times I did exactly what I call you out for doing - correcting grammar while making grammatical mistakes. Long live the Queen!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would hope your post was sarcastic since you have also used "you're" incorrectly (prove YOUR point).

It was sarcastic - notice that comes after "you think". I guess that wasn't as obvious as I thought.

If we are being precise, in your latest post, the period should have come inside the quotation marks. As in..."you think."

So after you corrected someone's grammar, you make the same mistake you corrected and in your attempt to make an excuse for that first mistake, you made another. Lol.

My usage is correct in British English. Now that's me trying to save face.

Self-deprecating humor is something we agree on. God knows how many times I did exactly what I call you out for doing - correcting grammar while making grammatical mistakes. Long live the Queen!

Seriously, we've had a good experience with Arlington parents. Sure, we fit some of the stereotypes, but I think most are pretty nice and fun to be around. We've made a lot of good friends that continue to be good friends even after our kids aren't on the same team anymore. And if I'm being honest, I think almost every time I can remember thinking the other team's parents were being "douches", it was in a game our kids were losing. We all get caught up in rooting for our kids and it's all good as long as it stays positive. My kids have had some pretty bad things said to them by other teams' parents while they were playing, and that's no good. I've also heard parents ripping kids on their own team - that's no good. I've heard very little if any of that from our sidelines, and plenty of times I've heard our parents cheering for or wowing a nice play by the opposition. That's what this should be all about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would hope your post was sarcastic since you have also used "you're" incorrectly (prove YOUR point).

It was sarcastic - notice that comes after "you think". I guess that wasn't as obvious as I thought.

If we are being precise, in your latest post, the period should have come inside the quotation marks. As in..."you think."

So after you corrected someone's grammar, you make the same mistake you corrected and in your attempt to make an excuse for that first mistake, you made another. Lol.

My usage is correct in British English. Now that's me trying to save face.

Self-deprecating humor is something we agree on. God knows how many times I did exactly what I call you out for doing - correcting grammar while making grammatical mistakes. Long live the Queen!

I object to the civility of this exchange. Screw you both!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Arlington parental behavior is not unique to soccer. Arlington parents are Arlington parents in all aspects. About 95% of mothers/fathers in a household are a lawyer or a lobbyist. It's no wonder that lobbying and arguing a case spills over to their Snowflake and their sport team placement. You know what other Club is just like this? McLean. Now, I think Arlington parents are generally better than McLean parents. I find Arlington parents to be merely competitive with other Arlington parents and their kids' placement in the Club is a huge deal to them while McLean parents want to be superior all around. McLean parents are worse on the sideline. You learn to pick your poison---or you could just avoid both.

HBO has been running that Travel soccer movie 'Bad Parents' starring Jeanane Garafolo. While it's pretty awful the stereotypes of the parents and coaches in the movie are spot on. She starts out as not giving a sh*t about soccer, but soon gets caught up in the fever to do anything to get her daughter on the A team at all costs. It's hysterical and, yes, she doesn't like herself and what she's become at the end. The mom with 'the star', I have met her many times in the 6 years my kids have been playing.

Maybe some can watch it and gain enlightenment and take a hard look at themselves.

Are McLean parents particularly bad? My kid's only been playing with them for a year, but at least on our particular team, the coaches will shut the parents down right away if there's any backtalk or complaining about ref calls from the sidelines. They make us behave.

[Anonymous]

Group text chats amongst the parents galore!

[Anonymous]

What a depressing thread. Is this real life?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Arlington parental behavior is not unique to soccer. Arlington parents are Arlington parents in all aspects. About 95% of mothers/fathers in a household are a lawyer or a lobbyist. It's no wonder that lobbying and arguing a case spills over to their Snowflake and their sport team placement. You know what other Club is just like this? McLean. Now, I think Arlington parents are generally better than McLean parents. I find Arlington parents to be merely competitive with other Arlington parents and their kids' placement in the Club is a huge deal to them while McLean parents want to be superior all around. McLean parents are worse on the sideline. You learn to pick your poison---or you could just avoid both.

HBO has been running that Travel soccer movie 'Bad Parents' starring Jeanane Garafolo. While it's pretty awful the stereotypes of the parents and coaches in the movie are spot on. She starts out as not giving a sh*t about soccer, but soon gets caught up in the fever to do anything to get her daughter on the A team at all costs. It's hysterical and, yes, she doesn't like herself and what she's become at the end. The mom with 'the star', I have met her many times in the 6 years my kids have been playing.

Maybe some can watch it and gain enlightenment and take a hard look at themselves.

Ha! I was going to post something similar. Arlington and McLean. Pretty unbearable. And, not to be harsh, but at least Arlington is a dominant club.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What a depressing thread. Is this real life?

+1 its kids soccer. Parents need to simmer down. How horrible for the kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What a depressing thread. Is this real life?

+1 its kids soccer. Parents need to simmer down. How horrible for the kids.

This is about the parents not the kids. The kids are kids, the parents are the douches.

[Anonymous]

Douchy parents create douchy kids. Apples don’t fall very far from its tree.

I see this every day on my travel team.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Douchy parents create douchy kids. Apples don’t fall very far from its tree.

I see this every day on my travel team.

Yep

They hear their parents talking and what they say about teammates and coaches.

The entitlement and lionization of their kid also starts in the home and then he/she acts like a prima donna on the field, aka a mini douche.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Douchy parents create douchy kids. Apples don’t fall very far from its tree.

I see this every day on my travel team.

Yep

They hear their parents talking and what they say about teammates and coaches.

The entitlement and lionization of their kid also starts in the home and then he/she acts like a prima donna on the field, aka a mini douche.

Pot … meet kettle ...

[Anonymous]

HA ! The All Mighty team manager!! Usually a kiss ass overweight mom who thinks her kids is the best on the team. thinks the coach and her have a special relationship where she is part of the roster selection. You are better off asking the other parents.

Wow, my husband is the team manager and he's an average weight middle-aged guy. We know our kid is not the best on the team. DH volunteered to do it after absolutely no one else on the team would step up.