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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are there any clubs without toxic parents? These descriptions make me shudder. I have only been around a few of these parents. They pretend they are welcoming and encouraging to everyone and meanwhile they scheme and gossip and talk to the coach about how this child is not very good and should be transferred and this child doesn't create the "right" environment. 
How can I avoid these people! In Potomac. Please don't tell me to move. I have thought of this but can't for a few years at least.[/quote]

I don't think it's usually the club that is responsible for a toxic environment, just something that sometimes happens in situations where there's a combination of one or more scheming parents and a weak coach.  We've been very happy overall with the teams our kids (boys)  have played on at both Potomac and Bethesda.   [/quote]

We found it can vary vastly amongst age groups within the same Club.  Same Club--one kid's age group was wonderful.  It had to do with the way the Age group head ran it.  He made it about unity amongst the teams.  Activities were mixed amongst team colors.

Other kid's age group is very toxic--with A team parents glaring at everyone else, swamping the sidelines at every practice and openly criticizing all the other players/teams.  [b]First team is held up on a pedestal and the kids are nasty and cliquish, just like parents.  They won't pass to other kids not on their team in scrimmages/practices.[/b]  Needless to say, even with most likely promotion to said team, kid doesn't want to play there.  Who wants a bunch of jerks for teammates?  Too toxic.[/quote]

Ding, Ding, Ding.  That has been my experience with our U9 and U10 top teams at a big club.  I had to talk to the coach and ask the coach not play my kid up any longer, it stressed my kid out too much because kids not passing, joysticking A team parents yelling at my kid what to do, and it was just not any fun.  [/quote]

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