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[quote=Anonymous] My dad was just as involved with my sister and I as my brother in soccer.  The moms back then were not really involved on any side (other than cheering and bringing orange slices)  because they did not grow up playing team sports, there wasn't women's soccer in the 60s, 50s, etc.  It didn't get going in this area until the mid 70s.

My generation (aged mid40s-early50s- think Jill Ellis, Mia Hamm, etc) was one of the first generations to reach high levels in the sport.  Now--you have a moms with a soccer background heavily involved in their daughter's soccer.  As a mom with only boys, I find the boy's side very much an all-boys Club and I am more often than not the only female on the sidelines.  You get dads that never played really into it---and it's easier to just let them congregate and have their pow-wows, schmooze with the male Coaches, etc.  I think the dynamic shifts when you have female coaches and female players, or even just male coaches coaching girls---they are more receptive to the mothers. Therefore, the mothers push more and become like stage moms.   Boys' moms are ultimately ignored or assumed to be ignorant in the sport, even those of us that played D1 and beyond.  Also, a teen boy does not want his mom getting involved---even when she knows more than him.

I think girl parents are riding off the high of the USWNT.  Also, there is also that same sex living vicariously through your kid.  You have always seen this with dad's living on the field/court/diamond through their sons.  Now the mom's are doing this with their daughters.

Those are just some of my thoughts that I've noticed as a passive bystander around the girl parents and boy parents at our Club.  There are definitely crazy parents on both sides, but with options more realistic for females the stakes are higher which does lend itself to  more drama.[/quote]

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