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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, kids need to learn to deal with distractions.

My H and I coached a team for a few years and they assigned us a kid that was super hyperactive.

At practice I had my son or my older son stand by him to redirect when he got off task. It really was not that difficult.  Kids are way less judgemental than parents.  Truthfully every kid had an issue but this boy's issue were just more obvious.

WTF kind of society are we in that this child is not allowed to play soccer.

Mid-season we found out his old team pretended they broke up but stayed together and we had to play them, his mom was really upset.

Usually my H and I would just play all the kids even, where ever and not worry about winning. But we knew we could win, we put this kid as striker, we put my super athletic son in the goal, shut down the other team on defense and only sent the ball to this kid to score. We destroyed the other team and ran up the score. It was poetic.

When it was time to shake hands the other coach said, "I know what you did" and my H said, "and I know what you did"... the man said, "to be fair I didn't do it"... my H said, "yea you did, you fing suck, and you broke his mom's heart"

His mom said to me "ive never really understood the joy of competition and winning until right this moment."

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THis is awesome, we need more people like you.  It's hard being a volunteer and the parents need to understand that these coaches are not paid and do it because they feel they can create a welcoming environment to all, not to just the athletically talented.  One year at U7, I coached and decided I would not tolerate "too" much goofing around during practices.  When a player would misbehave to the point where it disrupted the other kids I would make them run a lap.  They stopped after running and it appeared to work, that is until a parent asked me why I made their child run, when I explained that I could yell at them, sit them out, list goes and on.  That was the best I could do to make sure the other kids got the most out of practice, the parent said it's not fair to make them run.  IT'S SOCCER!  Kids got it and guess what, after the first 3 weeks, no on had to run anymore because they all paid attention.[/quote]

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