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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's youth soccer!   Why do parents berate, taunt, and otherwise terrorize other teams, coaches and referees? I do not care if you are the top team in the country or a Recreation team just starting out, no parents have the right to treat other children (or adults) so poorly.  Why does this happen? And more importantly, how does one stop it?  I do not want my child playing in this environment, nor do I want to be exposed to it.

It is a GAME - lighten up![/quote]

Seems like you are mixing a question: "why are parents so invested?" with a statement: "no child should be exposed to an adult behaving poorly".

1) to answer the title of the thread... parents feel invested because they are literally investing their time and money into their children's activities.  its human nature to struggle with disappointment.  99.9% of parents deal with setbacks for their children just fine 99.9% of the time, but every once in a while they don't. There's no excuse for parental meltdowns, but the question of "why" is fairly easy to understand.

2) to answer the question i think you meant to ask... no, you can't prevent your child from being "exposed to it" in one form or another.  poor behavior by adults is a fact of life.  have you never been exposed to adults behaving badly at work, at the grocery store, in a traffic jam? If your child is literally being abused, then take appropriate measures.  But if an adult is simply making a fool of themself then use it as a teaching moment for your child, and help them understand that age is just a number. Getting older isn't necessarily the same thing as maturing.

PS- if its more a matter of you being annoyed at a loud obnoxious parent on an opposing team who won't shut up, feel free to provide them feedback in person rather than venting here.  Every team has "that parent", and if you're annoyed its fairly safe to assume that everyone else is also...[/quote]

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