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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stop saying stuff like their kids got cut and could not make A team. [/quote]

God, YES!  It’s the parents making such a big deal of little kid stuff that drives me nuts.

We left our County Club because the parents were always sizing everyone up and looking for connections.  If you could be a “use” to them they were suck ups.  They self-segregated as well.  Gossiped big time and bad mouthed kids behind everyone’s back (adults!).  If a kid was moved up or asked to move up, they ripped them apart and questioned “why” amongst themselves.  I always found it so ironic that they focused on the wrong stuff, like team placement in the little kid years when all they should have cared about was individual development.  But, it’s usually the parents that didn’t play competitively themselves that are the most caught up in the bullshit.

It was a social pecking order.  The most normal people were the ones that didn’t use the Club for their own social life and self-fulfillment.  Not all Clubs are like this and it was good to move and be around normal people.[/quote]

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