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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not to rub it in, but our parent group has a blast at games.  No shouting unless it's a just ridiculously bad call, most of the time you'll hear the parents joke with kids while they are playing and this is a top end team.  We learned as a group early on that pressuring the kids, yelling at refs, and even going after other kids on the field just tightens up the players.

Sit back and enjoy, they will play faster and harder because it ends up being entertainment rather than test for all to judge.[/quote]

We had a group of parents like this for most of my son’s younger years, and several became some of our closest friends. There actually can be positives to being very invested in a kid’s team, though of course not in the way OP is talking about.  My son and his friends loved playing together so much that when a couple made it onto a DA roster, the others worked super hard until they made the team a year or two later.  The fact that they were able to stay together all those years and the joy we had watching them made all the travel soccer annoyances bearable. Now we are having a blast watching them play in college. [/quote]

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